Airborne arsenic and urinary excretion of arsenic metabolites during boiler cleaning operations in a Slovak coal-fired power plant

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 836-842

  Yager, Janice W ^a   Hicks, Jeffrey B ^b   Fabianova, Eleonora ^c  

^a ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Geomatrix Consultants   (United States)

^c Specialized State Health Institute   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Biological monitoring; Coal; Occupational exposure; Power plant; Urinary metabolites

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CACODYLIC ACID; COAL; COPPER; CREATININE; METHANEARSONIC ACID;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BOILER; CLEANING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FLY ASH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVAKIA; SMELTER; URINARY EXCRETION; WORKING TIME;

EID: 0030660622     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105836     Document Type: Article

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