3 results for “Reaction Department”
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 14, 1939
Leroy Gardner, Interim Report on Experimental Asbestosis at the Saranac Laboratory (1939)
…The experiments had set out to reproduce advanced asbestosis in animals, but guinea pigs breathing very finely ground Canadian chrysotile for 30 months showed little reaction, while a second group breathing longer fibres began to develop…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 28, 1944
Leroy Gardner to Ivan Sabourin on Asbestosis and Tuberculosis (1944)
…over 80%." He calls these "excessive amounts of severe asbestosis." He also writes that the dust reaction in Quebec "is very much less than it is in the fabricating plants in the United States." The letter…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 30, 1952
Saranac Laboratory, Final Report on the Capacity of Inhaled Kaylo Dust to Injure the Lung (1952)
…animals breathed an average of about 116 million particles per cubic foot. The report attributed the reaction to the asbestos fibers rather than the calcium silicate. Dust exposure had little effect on tuberculosis in infected animals…