Metal concentrations in e-cigarette liquid and aerosol samples: The contribution of metallic coils

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Olmedo, Pablo ^a,b,c   Goessler, Walter ^d   Tanda, Stefan ^d   Grau Perez, Maria ^a,b   Jarmul, Stephanie ^a   Aherrera, Angela ^a   Chen, Rui ^a   Hilpert, Markus ^b   Cohen, Joanna E ^e   Navas Acien, Ana ^a,b   Rule, Ana M ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BERYLLIUM; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; GERMANIUM; INDIUM; IRON; LEAD; LUTETIUM; MANGANESE; METAL; NICKEL; TIN; TITANIUM; TUNGSTEN; URANIUM; ZINC; HEAVY METAL;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEATING; HUMAN; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; INTERVIEW; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATRIX EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SELF REPORT; TOPOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE;

AEROSOLS; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; METALS; METALS, HEAVY;

EID: 85042882277     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP2175     Document Type: Article

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