Dithiothreitol‐Measured Oxidative Potential of Reference Materials of Mineral Dust: Implications for the Toxicity of Mineral Dust Aerosols in the Atmosphere [PDF]
GeoHealth, 2023 Oxidative stress is a mechanism that might raise the toxicity of mineral dust aerosols. We evaluated the oxidative potential (OP) of four reference materials (RMs) of mineral dusts using dithiothreitol assay.
Chiharu Nishita‐Hara +3 more
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A Global-Scale Mineral Dust Equation. [PDF]
J Geophys Res Atmos, 2022 AbstractA robust method to estimate mineral dust mass in ambient particulate matter (PM) is essential, as the dust fraction cannot be directly measured but is needed to understand dust impacts on the environment and human health. In this study, a global‐scale dust equation is developed that builds on the widely used Interagency Monitoring of Protected ...
Liu X +4 more
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On mineral dust aerosol hygroscopicity [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020 Despite its importance, hygroscopicity of mineral dust aerosol remains highly uncertain. In this work, we investigated water adsorption and hygroscopicity of different mineral dust samples at 25 ∘C, via measurement of sample mass at different ...
L. Chen +16 more
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Occupational exposure to gases/fumes and mineral dust affect DNA methylation levels of genes regulating expression. [PDF]
Hum Mol Genet, 2019 Many workers are daily exposed to occupational agents like gases/fumes, mineral dust or biological dust, which could induce adverse health effects. Epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation, have been suggested to play a role.
van der Plaat DA +16 more
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Technical note: Absorption aerosol optical depth components from AERONET observations of mixed dust plumes [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2019 Absorption aerosol optical depth (AAOD) as obtained from sun–sky photometer measurements provides a measure of the light-absorbing properties of the columnar aerosol loading. However, it is not an unambiguous aerosol-type-specific parameter, particularly
S.-K. Shin +4 more
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Respiratory surveillance in mineral dust-exposed workers. [PDF]
Breathe (Sheff), 2020 Recently, there has been a worldwide resurgence in pneumoconiosis, or pulmonary fibrosis due to occupational mineral dust exposure. In Queensland, Australia, there has been a re-emergence of coal workers' pneumoconiosis and silicosis. Some coal mining communities have experienced a resurgence of progressive massive fibrosis in the USA and a worldwide ...
Wood C, Yates D.
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Mineralogical and chemical properties of dust particles of immissions in the area of Siderite, Ltd. Nižná Slaná [PDF]
Acta Montanistica Slovaca, 2005 This paper provides a with mineralogical and chemical study of a mineral dust at the locality Nižná Slaná. The source of the mineral dust in the mining and processing of metasomatic siderite.
Pavel Slančo +3 more
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Reflectance spectroscopy of indoor settled dust in Tel Aviv, Israel: comparison between the spring and the summer seasons [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2007 The influence of mineral and anthropogenic dust components on the VIS-NIR-SWIR spectral reflectance of artificial laboratory dust mixtures was evaluated and used in combination with Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression to construct a model that ...
A. A. Chudnovsky, E. Ben-Dor, H. Saaroni
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Technical Note: High-resolution mineralogical database of dust-productive soils for atmospheric dust modeling [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012 Dust storms and associated mineral aerosol transport are driven primarily by meso- and synoptic-scale atmospheric processes. It is therefore essential that the dust aerosol process and background atmospheric conditions that drive dust emissions and ...
S. Nickovic +4 more
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Aerosol–cloud–radiation interaction during Saharan dust episodes: the dusty cirrus puzzle [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023 Dusty cirrus clouds are extended optically thick cirrocumulus decks that occur during strong mineral dust events. So far they have mostly been documented over Europe associated with dust-infused baroclinic storms.
A. Seifert +10 more
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