5 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Chrysotile asbestos: health effects
…at the workplace for 50 years) resulted in unacceptable health hazards. The workers' general health was comparable to that of Quebec Province's population. The author stated that the Rockville quarries contain much less chrysotile than…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Indoor air pollution: a public health perspective
…than 100 fibers per milliliter during disruptive contact maintenance to ceilings. They wrote that risks to the general public were unknown because exposure-effect data came only from occupational settings. Unless the material was extremely friable…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
No meeting of the minds on asbestos
…The other, called 'revisionist', held that chrysotile poses relatively little risk to the general public at usual exposure levels. The article cited 1970s studies indicating a smaller percentage of chrysotile-exposed workers dying of mesothelioma; the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1950
Tubular crystals of chrysotile asbestos
…oxygen sheet. The authors concluded that both natural and synthetic chrysotile crystallize as hollow cylindrical tubes, and that there is a general structural analogy and a striking resemblance between the tubular crystals of endellite and chrysotile.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Chrysotile asbestos: effects of human exposure
…exonerated the quarry's crushed rock as a carcinogen, and his claim that these workers' general health was comparable to that of Quebec Province as a whole. They noted that latent periods for asbestos-related malignancy…