Determination of urinary beryllium, arsenic, and selenium in steel production workers

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 235-246

  Horing, C J ^a   Horing, P H ^a   Lin, S C ^a   Tsai, J L ^a   Lin, S R ^a   Tzeng, C C ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atomic absorption spectrometry; Steel production workers; Trace elements; Urine analysis

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BERYLLIUM; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; WORKPLACE;

ARSENIC; BERYLLIUM; BOROHYDRIDES; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; METALLURGY; MICROWAVES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; SELENIUM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STEEL; TEMPERATURE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 0036738467     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/BTER:88:3:235     Document Type: Article

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