Release of Crystalline Silica Nanoparticles during Engineered Stone Fabrication
Kabir Rishi, Bon Ki Ku, Chaolong Qi, Drew Thompson, Chen Wang, Alan Dozier, Vasileia Vogiazi, Orthodoxia Zervaki, Pramod Kulkarni · 2024
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Description
Kabir Rishi and co-authors measure in this 2024 study the tiniest silica dust thrown off when workers cut engineered stone countertops. Breathing crystalline silica is a rising job hazard, yet the nano-sized share of the dust was unmapped. The team made dust in a test chamber, sorted it by size, and read its crystal forms with X-ray and infrared tools.
Crystals made up seventy percent of the mass in the finest fraction, in two forms whose shares shifted with size. That finest share is only about one percent of the dust by mass, but up to a quarter of it by surface area that can land in lungs. The authors warn that mass-based safety checks may understate the risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kabir Rishi, Bon Ki Ku, Chaolong Qi, Drew Thompson, Chen Wang, Alan Dozier, Vasileia Vogiazi, Orthodoxia Zervaki, Pramod Kulkarni |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |