Centuries of human activities, particularly housing and transportation practices from the late
19th century through the 1980's, dispersed hundreds of millions of tons of lead into our …

Heavy metals are a common class of toxic contaminants in soil, water and air, yet their
occurrence in indoor environments is less known. Heavy metals enter people's bodies …

To investigate the characteristics of heavy metals (Cr, Cd, Pb, Zn, Cu and Ni) in household
dust in urban household environment of Chengdu, China, 90 household dust samples were …

Raising population, deteriorating environmental conditions and limiting natural resources to
handle the key environmental health problems have critically affected human health and the …

People spend increasing amounts of time at home, yet the indoor home environment
remains understudied in terms of potential exposure to toxic trace metals. We evaluated …

Given the large proportion of time that people spend indoors, the potential health risks
posed by heavy metals in the indoor environment deserve greater attention. A global-scale …

We present a model for the growth of organic films on impermeable indoor surfaces. The
model couples transport through a gas‐side boundary layer adjacent to the surface with …

This study examines residential indoor dust from 224 homes in Sydney, Australia for trace
element concentrations measured using portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) and their …

As a new type of nozzle, the internal mixing air atomizing nozzle has been widely used in
the field of dust reduction via spraying. In this study, the effect of water supply pressure on …

Metal contamination in soil, dust, and food matrices impacts the health of millions of people
worldwide. During the past decades, various animal bioassays have been developed to …