Exposure limits for airborne contaminants in spacecraft atmospheres

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1424-1432

  James, John T ^a   Gardner, Donald E ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b Inhalation Toxicology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0029962690     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1996.10389440     Document Type: Article

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