A comparison of structural and compositional differences between silica-based particles obtained from the coal mine environment and similar particles from alveolar macrophages of coal miners determined by scanning transmission electron microscopy

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 754-766

  Rainey, Lenore C ^a   Bolsaitis, Peter ^a   Dirsa, Barbara ^a   Vander Sande, John B ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MINERAL DUST; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0029836324     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1996.10389966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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