{"id":180,"date":"2009-04-03T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T02:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2009-04-03T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T02:33:06","slug":"asbestos-fibre-lengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Asbestos fibre size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What you see is not what you get.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The paper:<br \/>\nStayner, L., E. Kuempel, et al. (2008). &#8220;<a title=\"Stayner 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/oem.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/65\/9\/613\" target=\"_blank\">An epidemiological study of the role of chrysotile asbestos fibre dimensions in determining respiratory disease risk in exposed workers<\/a>.&#8221; Occup Environ Med 65(9): 613-619.<!--more--><br \/>\ngives an account of the fibre lengths by TEM (transmission electron microscopy) and PCM (phase contrast optical microscopy).<\/p>\n<p>It has a nice picture showing the proportion of asbestos fibres by length and diameter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_181\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181\" class=\"size-full wp-image-181\" title=\"asbetos-fibre-length\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/asbetos-fibre-length.png\" alt=\"Asbestos fibre size\" width=\"521\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/asbetos-fibre-length.png 521w, https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/asbetos-fibre-length-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asbestos fibre size<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fibres NOT seen by PCM are in grey. The fibres and fibre bundles were from a South Carolina textile factory.<\/p>\n<p>DWB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you see is not what you get. The paper: Stayner, L., E. Kuempel, et al. (2008). &#8220;An epidemiological study of the role of chrysotile asbestos fibre dimensions in determining respiratory disease risk in exposed workers.&#8221; Occup Environ Med 65(9): 613-619.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,7,20],"tags":[268,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-asbestos","7":"category-fibres","8":"category-occupational-hygiene","9":"tag-asbestos","10":"tag-fibres","11":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}