Chrysotile asbestos migration in air from contaminated water: An experimental simulation.
Balangero
Environmental fate
Migration
Naturally occurring asbestos
Simulation test
Journal
Journal of hazardous materials
ISSN: 1873-3336
Titre abrégé: J Hazard Mater
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9422688
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 02 2022
15 02 2022
Historique:
received:
09
08
2021
revised:
13
10
2021
accepted:
14
10
2021
pubmed:
5
11
2021
medline:
27
1
2022
entrez:
4
11
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA) rich areas, water flows through asbestos bearing rocks and soils and generates waterborne fibres that may migrate in air and become a risk for humans. Research on the migration and dispersion after water vaporisation has been so far only marginally evaluated. This study investigates the migration in air of asbestos from a set of suspensions contaminated by chrysotile from Balangero (Italy), under controlled laboratory conditions. We evaluated i) the morphological modifications that might occur to chrysotile during migration from water to air, and ii) the amount of airborne chrysotile mobilised from standardised suspensions. Morphological alteration of asbestos fibres occurred during water-air migration and impacted on the analytical response of electron microscopy. Waterborne asbestos concentration higher than 40 ∙ 10
Identifiants
pubmed: 34736189
pii: S0304-3894(21)02496-1
doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127528
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Asbestos, Serpentine
0
Water
059QF0KO0R
Asbestos
1332-21-4
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
127528Informations de copyright
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