1. Formaldehyde Concentrations in Workrooms Resulting from Off-Gassing from Sandpaper
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Kenneth R. Warren, Leighton K. Turner, Stewart J. Laing, and L. Ross Baker
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Male ,Materials science ,Waste management ,Metallurgy ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Formaldehyde ,Air Pollutants, Occupational ,Occupational Diseases ,Outgassing ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Direct exposure ,Humans ,Resins, Plant ,Ships ,Sandpaper - Abstract
Formaldehyde was found to off-gas from flint sandpaper that contained an urea-formaldehyde resin as the minor component in a double glue system. Approximately 2000 sheets of sandpaper in a 115 m3 (4050 ft3) ship's storeroom with no mechanical ventilation produced a formaldehyde concentration of at least 4.5 ppm that was uniform throughout the compartment. A contributing factor was elevated compartment temperature due to high ambient temperature and the heating of the ship's steel hull by direct exposure to the sun.
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- 1984
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