Blood mercury in workers exposed to the preparation of mercury cadmium telluride layers on cadmium telluride base

Industrial Health

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 421-425

  Gupta, Manju ^a   Bansal, Jai Krishna ^a   Khanna, Chandra Mohan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Accidental exposure; Airborne mercury concentration; Industrial exposure to mercury; Mercury cadmium telluride; Mercury in blood

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; MERCURY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MERCURIALISM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD;

EID: 0029859188     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.34.421     Document Type: Article

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