Reanalysis of historic elemental speciation filters to investigate the presence of fibrous mineral particles using microscopy techniques.

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Reanalysis of historic elemental speciation filters to investigate the presence of fibrous mineral particles using microscopy techniques.

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A case is presented for the value of archiving air quality filters to allow for retrospective analysis of emerging contaminants, that is filter constituents not considered to be harmful (and thus not identified or quantified specifically) at the time of collection but subsequently considered to be of interest. As an example, filters from a 20-year historical archive consisting of 16,000 filters from three sites across Auckland are re-examined for the presence of elongated mineral fibres known...

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2022-01

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Talbot, Nick / Dirks, Kim N / Fan, Wendy / Patel, Hamesh / Costello, Seosamh B / Brook, Martin / Davy, Perry

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/63329

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PTFE filters / archiving / energy dispersive analysis (EDS) / erionite / reanalysis / scanning electron microscopy (SEM)

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