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Title: RISKS OF SELECTED FIELD OF NANOMATERIALS
RISKS OF SELECTED FIELD OF NANOMATERIALS

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Petra Roupcova; Karel Klouda; Lenka Kissikova; Jan Slany
10.5593/sgem2023/6.1/s24.09
10.5593/sgem2023/6.1
1314-2704
978-619-7603-61-3
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•    Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE 
•    Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA
Micro and Nano Technologies
Working in stone quarrying and stone processing poses certain risks that must not be underestimated. The safety of workers must be paramount, where work-related injuries can occur, so the use of appropriate personal protective equipment is important, but the less visible risks, such as inhalation of granite stone dust, which can penetrate the respiratory tract, lungs and lung chambers, causing silicosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney disease or lung cancer, must not be underestimated. Chemically, granite dust consists of silica, which is the most abundant, and alumina, potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, ferric and magnesium oxides. For this reason, it is important to take all the nanoparticles of granite stone dust into account and see if they show toxic effects, for example. The aim was to carry out measurements of the concentration of released nanoparticles during granite processing in a selected stone quarry.
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The publication was written within the project of Norway grants “Innovative carbonbased sorbents as an efficient way of wastewater treatment” project number 3213200008.
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Proceedings of 23rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2023
23rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2023, 03 - 09 July, 2023
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