Magnetism of outdoor and indoor settled dust and its utilization as a tool for revealing the effect of elevated particulate air pollution on cardiovascular mortality

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Jordanova, Diana ^a   Jordanova, Neli ^a   Lanos, Philippe ^b   Petrov, Petar ^a   Tsacheva, Tsenka ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b Laboratoire d'Archéomagnétisme CNRS UMR 5060 Université Bordeaux 3 ^*  (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTION; COERCIVE FORCE; DUST; HEAVY METALS; HYDROCARBONS; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETITE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMANENCE;

BULGARIA; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COERCIVITIES; COERCIVITY OF REMANENCE; DIESEL EXHAUSTS; DUST LOADING; DUST SAMPLES; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY METAL CONTENTS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; INDOOR DUST; IRON OXIDE PARTICLES; IRREGULAR PARTICLE; LINEAR CORRELATION; MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTIC; MAGNETIC GRAIN SIZE; MAGNETIC MINERALS; PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION; POLLUTION SOURCES; POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PSEUDO SINGLE DOMAINS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SECONDARY POLLUTION; SEM/EDX; SETTLED DUST; SITE-SPECIFIC; TRAFFIC-RELATED; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DUST; HEAVY METAL; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MORTALITY RISK; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BULGARIA;

SPHERULES;

EID: 84865741915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004160     Document Type: Article

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