This overview covers health-related effects of a special group of silicates, named phyllosilicates for their structure (non-fibrous platty crystals), and known for their industrial uses (filling, insulating and absorbing materials). Their most important contaminant, asbestos, is also discussed. The different chapters describe the present knowledge concerning geology, mineralogy and health-related effects (epidemiology, pathology, animal experiments, cell toxicology, carcinogenesis) of phyllosilicates.
- ISBN10 3540517650
- ISBN13 9783540517658
- Publish Date 29 June 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 January 1995
- Publish Country DE
- Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
- Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 461
- Language English