Emergency and Continuous Exposure Limits for Selected Airborne Contaminants Volume 1 (1984) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Mercury Vapor
Mercury Vapor
Pages 89-94
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 89... ...
(Windholz et al., 1976; ACGIH, 1980) Chronic toxicity is characterized by tremors, weakness, sensory abnormalities, memory loss, erethism, muscle pains, gingivitis, emotion or intellect changes, and kidney damage (Browning, 1969~.
|
From page 90... ...
Factory workers exposed to elemental mercury (in a mercury cell chlorine plant) were found to have ulnar nerve conduction deficits when their urinary excretion of mercury exceeded 250 AWL, despite the fact that they were asymptomatic and appeared normal when examined by an industrial physician (Levine et al.
|
From page 91... ...
Biologic changes may occur in persons exposed to mercury vapor at concentrations below the current TLV (Lauwerys and Buchet, 1973~. There appears to be an increase in the concentration of mercury in the blood and urine, with a concomitant slight decrease in RBC cholinesterase activity and increase in plasma galactosidase and plasma catalase activities.
|
From page 92... ...
support retention of the 1966 recommendation for a 90-d CEL of 0.01 mg/m3. To summarize, the Committee reco~£unends the following exposure limit s for mercury vapor: 24-h EEL: O
|
From page 93... ...
U.S. Public Health Service Public Health Bulletin, 263.
|
From page 94... ...
1972. Dose-response relationship associated with known mercury absorption at low dose levels of inorganic mercury.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.