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Atmospheric fluoride pollution. Part II

Abstract

In East Osaka, agricultural crops either died or showed poor growth in the neighborhood of a factory producing white cosmetic bottles. Since fluorite was used as a material and there was no damage before the establishment of the factory, it was suspected that fluorine compounds were causing the damage. Quantitative analysis was performed on the agricultural crops and the exhaust gas as well as the dust particles in order to determine the fluorine content. Gas samplers were used to collect the dusts from the surrounding atmosphere. The fluorine content of dust near the factory was about 93 mg per cubic meter per day, and in some parts, as high as 1.54 mq per cubic meter per day. Relatively larger quantities of fluorine were measured at the southwestern and southeastern area of the factory, corresponding to the general wind pattern. Rice and soy beans from the neighborhood of the factory showed concentrations of fluorine and, especially in the leaves of the damaged crops, the concentrations were several hundred times higher than those of the undamaged leaves.
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1969
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EDB-85-141346
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Taiki Osen Gakkaishi; (Japan); Journal Volume: 4:1
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; GLYCINE HISPIDA; CONTAMINATION; RICE; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLERS; BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION; DUSTS; JAPAN; LEAVES; POLLUTION SOURCES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ASIA; CEREALS; DISTRIBUTION; EQUIPMENT; GRASS; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; INDUSTRY; LEGUMINOSAE; MASS TRANSFER; PLANTS; POLLUTION; SAMPLERS; 500200* - Environment, Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 560303 - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Plants- (-1987)
OSTI ID:
5306609
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: TOSGD
Submitting Site:
HEDB
Size:
Pages: 148
Announcement Date:
Jul 01, 1985

Citation Formats

Hasegawa, T, and Yamazaki, Y. Atmospheric fluoride pollution. Part II. Japan: N. p., 1969. Web.
Hasegawa, T, & Yamazaki, Y. Atmospheric fluoride pollution. Part II. Japan.
Hasegawa, T, and Yamazaki, Y. 1969. "Atmospheric fluoride pollution. Part II." Japan.
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title = {Atmospheric fluoride pollution. Part II}
author = {Hasegawa, T, and Yamazaki, Y}
abstractNote = {In East Osaka, agricultural crops either died or showed poor growth in the neighborhood of a factory producing white cosmetic bottles. Since fluorite was used as a material and there was no damage before the establishment of the factory, it was suspected that fluorine compounds were causing the damage. Quantitative analysis was performed on the agricultural crops and the exhaust gas as well as the dust particles in order to determine the fluorine content. Gas samplers were used to collect the dusts from the surrounding atmosphere. The fluorine content of dust near the factory was about 93 mg per cubic meter per day, and in some parts, as high as 1.54 mq per cubic meter per day. Relatively larger quantities of fluorine were measured at the southwestern and southeastern area of the factory, corresponding to the general wind pattern. Rice and soy beans from the neighborhood of the factory showed concentrations of fluorine and, especially in the leaves of the damaged crops, the concentrations were several hundred times higher than those of the undamaged leaves.}
journal = []
volume = {4:1}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Japan}
year = {1969}
month = {Jan}
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