Advances in Identifying Beryllium Sensitization and Disease

Beryllium is a lightweight metal with unique qualities related to stiffness, corrosion resistance, and conductivity. While there are many useful applications, researchers in the 1930s and l940s linked beryllium exposure to a progressive occupational lung disease. Acute beryllium disease is a pulmona...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter Kowalski, Dan Middleton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-01-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Subjects:
BeS
CBD
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/1/115/