Sentence examples for alkaline dust from inspiring English sources

The coarse alkaline dust and ash from the collapsing towers and subsequent fires produced coughs and asthma that for some people, especially those who worked directly in the rubble, have yet to go away even after two years, doctors say.

Though a great part of the sludge has been carted off to safer locations (75 percent of the contaminated areas have been cleared, according to government statistics), powdery red alkaline dust still fills the air, as it has for years, when the weather is dry and windy.

Service in these operations exposed workers to toxic and unsafe working conditions, including smoke, fumes, and highly alkaline dust (pH 10 11).

These symptoms were most likely caused by inhalation of massive quantities of the highly alkaline dust (pH 10 11), which caused intense inflammation and subsequent scarring and distortion of airways.

Laborers and ironworkers manifested new-onset cough, wheeze, and sputum production (Geyh et al. 2005; Skloot et al. 2004), likely attributable to respiratory inflammation caused by the highly alkaline dust (Chen and Thurston 2002).

Environmental and personal air monitoring, dust analyses, and biomonitoring have identified that dust and air particulates and fibers, alkaline dust, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were greatly elevated in the first days after 11 September, with some contaminants remaining above background for 1 3 months (Lioy et al. 2002, in press; McGee et al. 2003; Swartz et al. 2003).

First-timers (aka "Burgins") are made to get down on their knees and hug the ground, baptizing themselves in the alkaline desert dust.

The smoldering wreckage of the Twin Towers contained large amounts of alkaline cement dust, which long before 9/11 had been linked to asthma and indigestion in cement factory workers and others exposed to the dust in workplace settings.

At 4 AM, when I learned the news, I sobbed hysterically on a cot in a mostly empty, eerily illuminated makeshift medical tent, every surface of which was covered with a fine sifting of alkaline playa dust.

When the reports started coming in that this year was rough; very cold nights, many days of windstorms which blow up the alkaline 'playa' dust, I felt concerned for my beloved friends, but another part of me felt glad for another's misery.

The dusts were alkaline, with a pH ranging from 9.3 to 11.5 (Lioy et al. 2002; McGee et al. 2003; Service 2003).