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What is radium dust?
Dust of the radioactive element Radium.
Is carbide grinder dust harmful when grinding carbide teeth?
All grinder dust is harmful. Just like saw dust or coal dust, it will build up in your lungs causing breathing issues. Wear a dust mask.
Do electric baseboards heaters cause soot?
Electric baseboard heaters are not supposed to cause soot. However; dust settles on the elements. When the electricity is turned on, the dust will burn off. There will be a trace of soot from that dust.
Do most the meteoroids burn up the stratospheretrue or false?
True. The vast majority of meteoroids burn up in the atmosphere, and reach the ground only as dust, after drifting around in the atmosphere for some time. (The stuff you wipe off the top of the TV set? Some of it is probably meteor dust.)
What are the advantage and disadvantage of coal relative to oil?
Coal has only one advantage relative to oil, which is that it is abundant and relatively inexpensive. Disadvantages include, it is more polluting (due to impurities in the coal) and it is harder to handle; oil can be pumped, whereas coal has to be shoveled. Coal mining is often more difficult and dangerous than pumping oil out of the ground. Coal dust creates the dangers of explosion, and black lung disease.
How is coal dangerous?
If you chuck it at people... If you burn it... If you inhale coal dust... Lots of ways :)
Why does coal dust burn quicker than lumps of coal?
The coal dust burns more quickly because it has a greater surface area to be exposed to the flames of the fire, therefore it burns quicker than the lump of coal.
When the south's supply of coal was gone people formed hard lumps of coal dust sawdust sand and wet clay to burn for heat what were they called?
fireball
Why do coal mines explode?
Coal dust in the air is an explosive mixture, because the mixture of coal and air can burn much more rapidly than solid pieces of coal can (flour in the air is also explosive, or sawdust - any flammable substance in the form of dust becomes explosive if it is mixed into the air). The process of mining coal is messy, and creates a lot of dust. And any spark can set it off. No smoking in the coal mines!
What are the dangers of coal dust?
The dangers of coal dust are inhaling the dust which goes into your lungs and skin irritation from dust. Coal dust is harmful for the most part and has no health benefits.
Another word for coal dust?
Soot is another word for coal dust.
What is the name of coal dust?
Particulate coal
Where is coal dust found?
Coal mines, coal bins, coal hods, and anywhere coal is or was.
What is black lung disease known as?
Coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP), is caused by inhaling coal dust.
Why is coal dust build out of coal mining in the enclosed area dangerous?
any concentration of dust is potentially explosive
Is coal dust a targeted or systemic toxicant?
Coal dust is a physical toxicant. This is because it is a real thing with real effects.
What is the ailment caused by the in halation of coal dust?
There are several nasty things that inhaling coal dust can do but the commonest one was pneumoconiosis.Pneumoconiosis is caused by dust in the lungs usually after prolonged environmental or occupational contact.Anthracosis (an-thrah-KOH-sis),also known as coal miner's pneumoconiosis or black lung disease, iscaused by coal dust in the lungs(anthrac means coal dust, and -osis means abnormal condition or disease.
