Airborne mineral fibers and quartz dust in precambrian metamorphic limestone and dolomite mines &finland

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1075-1080

  Junttila, Sakari ^a   Tossavainen, Antti ^a   Hartikainen, Tuula ^a   Hämä, Paavo ^b   Korhonen, Käri ^a   Suominen, Veli ^b   Pyy, Lauri ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMESTONE; MINERAL FIBER; SILICON DIOXIDE; TREMOLITE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; FINLAND; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029738583     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1996.10390017     Document Type: Article

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