Mounting evidence that carbon nanotubes may be the new asbestos
Friends of the Earth Australia - Fitzroy, VIC
2008
16 p.
asbestos ; health impact assessment ; lung deposition ; nanomaterials ; nanotechnology
Technology
http://nano.foe.org.au/node/266
English
Ill.;[Internet download]
"Carbon nanotubes – thin, hollow cylinders made of carbon atoms – look very much like asbestos. In 2004, the United Kingdom's Royal Society and risk specialists at the world's second largest reinsurance agent Swiss Re warned that once in our lungs, nanotubes may also behave like asbestos. Since then, a series of experiments have demonstrated that these warnings were well-founded. ..."
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