The exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS), e.g. quartz, in industrial settings can induce silicosis and may cause tumours in chronic periods. Consequently, RCS in the form of quartz and cristobalite has been classified as human lung carcinogen category 1 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 1997, acknowledging differences in hazardous potential depending on source as ...

Two recent intratracheal instillation toxicology studies in rats clearly show that a naturally occurring quartz, with occluded crystal surfaces (quartz isolate), produced significantly less inflammatory response than a crushed reference quartz (DQ12). Respirable-size quartz isolate was isolated from bentonite parent rock, without crushing or the use of chemicals, to ensure that the surface prop...

the lower to middle miocene chenar granitoid stock, a part of central iranian volcanic belt, is intruded into eocene volcano-sedimentary complex in northwestern kerman in south central iran. the chenar granitoid stock consists mainly of coarse to medium grain granodiorite and monzogranite with subordinate tonalite and syenogranite. alkali granites as aplitic veins and quartz dioritic dykes freq...

This paper describes an architecture that provides support for quality of service (QoS) in open systems. The Quartz QoS architecture aims to avoid the dependency on specific platforms that limits the application of most existing QoS architectures in open, heterogeneous and distributed systems. Quartz adopts a flexible and extensible platform-independent design that allows its internal component...

In this paper, we propose a new multivariate signature scheme named MI-T-HFE as a competitor of QUARTZ. The core map of MI-T-HFE is of an HFEv type but more importantly has a specially designed trapdoor. This special trapdoor makes MI-T-HFE have several attractive advantages over QUARTZ. First of all, the core map and the public map of MI-T-HFE are both surjective. This surjectivity property is...

Silicate minerals are therefore isolated from the foodstuffs, mostly by a density separation step. In order not to obscure the TL, the isolated silicate minerals should be as free of organic constituents as possible. A first glow of the separated mineral extracts is recorded (Glow 1). Since various amounts and/or types of minerals (quartz, feldspar etc.) exhibit very variable integrated TL inte...

BACKGROUND Determination of quartz by Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR) is not specific: the obtained results are influenced by matrix components, some of which cause spectral interference. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of dust components responsible for spectral interference with quartz on the results of its determinations, and to develop methods to minimize the ...

The late Pan-African Fawakhir, Urn Had and Urn Effein Granite Plutons in the Egyptian Central Eastern Desert are small, elongate to circular bodies of pink monzogranite and syenogranite, and grey monzodiorite. Structural investigation of the intrusive contacts of these plutons reveals marginal sub-horizontal intrusive sheets as magma injection along preexisting flat-lying structures including m...