The red mud accident in Ajka (Hungary): Characterization and potential health effects of fugitive dust

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1608-1615

  Gelencsér, András ^a   Kováts, Nóra ^a   Turóczi, Beatrix ^a   Rostási, Ágnes ^a   Hoffer, András ^b   Imre, Kornélia ^a   Nyiró Kósa, Ilona ^a   Csákberényi Malasics, Dorottya ^a   Tóth, Ádám ^a   Czitrovszky, Aladár ^b   Nagy, Attila ^b   Nagy, Szabolcs ^a   Ács, András ^a   Kovács, Anikó ^a   Ferincz, Árpád ^a   Hartyáni, Zsuzsanna ^a   Pósfai, Mihály ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AGRICULTURAL AREAS; CANCRINITES; ELEMENTAL FRACTIONATION; FUGITIVE DUST; HUMAN HEALTH; HUNGARY; HYDROGARNET; INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NUMBER SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POTENTIAL HEALTH; RE-SUSPENSION; RED MUD; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

ACCIDENTS; ALKALINITY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATE MINERALS; HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; IRON ORES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

DUST;

ALKALINE EARTH METAL; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CANCRINITE; ELEMENT; FERRIC OXIDE; HYDROGARNET; MINERAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DUST; SEWAGE;

ACCIDENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALKALINITY; CALCITE; CANCRINITE; DUST; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HEMATITE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SLUDGE; TOXICITY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AIR; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; DUST; EYE IRRITATION; FRACTIONATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUNGARY; INHALATION; METEOROLOGY; MINERALOGY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT; SLUDGE; TOXICITY TESTING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

HUNGARY;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79951665947     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es104005r     Document Type: Article

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