Mining or processing asbestos minerals can liberate isolated fibers or fiber bundles regulated as airborne asbestos fibers. Coarsely crystalline amphibole minerals are more common than asbestos in man...
This is the first report of an amphibole mineral found in any meteorite. The amphibole richterite (soda tremolite), Na(2)Ca(Mg, Fe)(5)Si(8)O(22)(OH, F)(2), occurs as a primary (preterrestrial) mineral...
Ten chrysotile bulk samples originating from six Chinese chrysotile mines were studied for amphibole fibres. Five of the mines operate on ultramafic rocks whereas one exploits a dolomite-hosted deposi...
Pharmaceutical and cosmetic-grade talcs were examined for asbestiform amphibole content using a new density-optical method. Talcs under the Food and Drug Administration are not regulated as to asbesto...
The carcinogenic and fibrogenic activity of four samples of synthetic amphibole asbestos with different chemical structure was examined in white rats. Pleural mesotheliomas were found: in 11 out of 27...
Amphibole content of cosmetic and pharmaceutical talcs.
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Geology Department, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102.
Pharmaceutical and cosmetic-grade talcs were examined for asbestiform am...
A cohort was established in 1981 of all 7317 white male employees in the amosite and crocidolite mines in South Africa whose names had appeared in the personnel records (initiated between 1945 and 195...