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  • Calls for An International Ban on Asbestos
    News - 1 Jul 2010
    The July 2010 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) will feature a call for an international ban on the mining and use of all forms of asbestos, including...
  • Detecting Asbestos Using Electron Microscopy
    Article - 6 Apr 2020
    This article discusses the detection of asbestos using electron microscopy and its importance in evaluating occupational exposure.
  • Nikon Instruments Inc.
    Supplier Profile
    Nikon currently contributes to the advancement of society with diverse businesses focused on three core business segments: precision equipment, imaging products and instruments. Nikon Instruments...
  • EPA Aims for Better Asbestos Removal Technology
    News - 16 May 2007
    The Environmental Protection Agency has announced the release of a draft report that evaluates an alternative demolition process for buildings containing asbestos. Scientists and engineers from...
  • U.S. EPA Sends Experts to Israel for Asbestos Training
    News - 9 May 2007
    A team of asbestos experts coordinated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just returned from a unique mission in Israel. Asbestos experts Chuck Nace and David Eppler traveled to Tel...
  • Guide to Working with Asbestos-Containing Coatings
    News - 22 Aug 2007
    ARCA, Asbestos Removal Contractors Association, committed to promoting the growth and image of the UK's asbestos abatement industry have published a new set of recommended guidelines for working...
  • Trade Offs Between Asbestos and Fire Risk Explored in New Book
    News - 22 Aug 2005
    Fire has always been a major threat to human health. But after an "epidemic" of sweeping fires in the late 1800s in the United States and Europe that killed thousands of people and destroyed...
  • Are There Similarities between Nanoparticles and Asbestos
    News - 16 Jun 2009
    New Study Compares Emerging Nanomaterial Risk Concerns With Disclosure Failures That Preceded Billions of Dollars in Asbestos Litigation Losses; Reform Roadmap for FASB, SEC to be Laid Out. Are...
  • New Study Likens Carbon Nanotubes to Asbestos
    News - 21 May 2008
    A major study published today in Nature Nanotechnology suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes -- a poster child for the "nanotechnology revolution" -- could be as harmful as asbestos if...
  • Analytical Approach for Asbestos Identification
    Article - 31 Oct 2007
    The determination of asbestos just got easier with the Nikon Eclipse polarising microscopes. By using a Nikon dispersion staining objective in conjunction with a phase annulus between the condenser...

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