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14249 
Book/Book Chapter 
Chromium compounds: production and occupational exposure 
Stern, RM 
1982 
Elsevier Biomedical Press B. V. 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
CIS/82/01922 
Biological and environmental aspects of chromium 
Park Allâe 345 
English 
Brief description of the production of chromium-containing chemicals and alloys, and literature survey of occupational exposure in the welding, chromate, chromium plating, ferrochromium, tanning and leather working and chromium pigment industries. For most occupations, exposure is to a mixture of Cr oxidation states and solubility fractions with a few notable exceptions: in the tanning industry, exposure is almost exclusively to soluble Cr(III), in the plating industry to soluble Cr(VI), and in the pigment industry, some wokers handling only lead chromate are exposed primarily to insoluble Cr(VI). Because of the wide variety of physical and chemical characteristics of the material of which airborne occupational exposures are composed, one can expect that the deposition, accumulation, clearance, bioavailability and pharmacokinetics of chromium differs widely from industry to industry, and great care must be taken in comparing exposures. 
CHROMIUM AND COMPOUNDS; HARMFUL SUBSTANCES; WELDING AND CUTTING; ELECTROPLATING; TANNING INDUSTRY; PAINT AND VARNISH INDUSTRY; REPORT; DENMARK; LITERATURE SURVEY; EXPOSURE EVALUATION; SOLUBILITY; ILO 
Topics in environmental health: v. 5 
Langard, S. 
IRIS
• Chromium VI
     Considered
          Excluded
               Other Cr Compounds