Sentence examples for lead fume from inspiring English sources

Exposure to lead fume was more common than exposure to lead dust among study participants overall.

Subjects' exposures were further categorized as "never" when no cumulative lead dust or lead fume exposure was assigned, "low" when cumulative exposures for either lead dust and/or lead fume ≤ median and neither lead dust and/or lead fume was > median, and "high" when cumulative exposure > median for either lead dust or lead fume (Table 1).

Similar results for kidney and brain cancers were observed for separate analyses of lead dust and lead fume.

Five of the top 10 jobs exposed to lead fume or lead dust were the same in both cohorts.

The lead fume and lead dust models were applied to both cohorts to estimate annual occupational lead fume and lead dust exposure for each study participant; the annual estimates were then summed over each participant's working life to obtain separate cumulative exposure estimates for lead fume and for lead dust.

Another strength of the exposure assessment was that it distinguished between lead fume and lead dust, which partly captured differences in lead composition and bioavailability.

Lead fumes (airborne particulates less than 0.5 μm in size) are particularly toxic.

He and his house-painter friends claimed that they had inhaled lead fumes for years, so they might as well add more chemicals.

BEIJING — The authorities suspended a local environmental protection official in eastern China after lead fumes from an illegal battery factory sickened 228 children, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported Sunday.

It was partly the noxious effects of the lead fumes that prompted him to work in other materials, notoriously, processed, white bread for his work Mother's Pride (1981), an assemblage of 6,000 slices with his own curled-up shape bitten out of the bread in sharp relief.

The worst affected were those employed in smelting or in the manufacture of lead-based paints, who found themselves surrounded daily by lead fumes.