Determination of exposure to respirable quartz in the stone crushing units at Azendarian-West of Iran

Industrial Health

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 404-408

  Bahrami, Abdul Rahman ^a   Golbabai, Faridah ^b   Mahjub, Hossien ^a   Qorbani, Farshid ^a   Aliabadi, Mohsan ^a   Barqi, Mohamadali ^c  

^a HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

LEV; Quartz; Respirable dust; Stone crushing; XRD

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SAMPLING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DUST; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; IRAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUARTZ; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

AUCHENORRHYNCHA; LIGUSTICUM PORTERI;

EID: 51849093577     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.46.404     Document Type: Article

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