The determination of silver in whole blood and its application to biological monitoring of occupationally exposed groups

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 331-338

  Armitage, Simon A ^a   White, Mark A ^b   Wilson, H Kerr ^a  

^a HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIZATION; BLOOD; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; MANUFACTURE; MONITORING; PERSONNEL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ALIQUOTS; AMMONIUM DIHYDROGEN ORTHOPHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BULLION PRODUCTION; CHEMICAL MANUFACTURE; CUTLERY MANUFACTURE; ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIZATION ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; JEWELLERY PRODUCTION; OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE; SILVER RECLAMATION;

SILVER;

EDETIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; SILVER; TRITON X 100;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030176028     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4878(95)00076-3     Document Type: Article

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