(1) The general methodology of the Finnish foundry project is presented.
(2) A survey was carried out in response to complaints of increased respiratory symptoms in children at schools near a foundry in Walsall, West Midlands.
(3) The prevalence of functional impairment and chronic bronchitis was higher in the foundry workers than in the group of non-exposed workers.
(4) Two occupational categories were extracted--"mining, tunneling, and quarrying" (n = 284) and "iron and steel foundries" (n = 428), respectively.
(5) Eight foundries using the "Ashland" process for the production of cores were surveyed to assess the occupational exposure to carcinogenic volatile nitrosamines.
(6) No pretreatment of the samples was necessary, and no interfering substances from the air in the foundries affected the analysis.
(7) The research has been conducted in two steps: in the first, we selected a sample of 100 subjects, all working in the iron foundry, who were affected only by small airway obstruction.
(8) Valid analyses of cause specific mortality among non-whites could be conducted for the foundry plant only.
(9) A cross-sectional evaluation was performed of workers in a steel foundry in which methylene diphenyldiisocyanate (MDI) was used as a component of a binder system used to make cores and molds.
(10) The same was true for smoking controls and foundry workers (9.10, 95% CI 8.00-10.20 and 8.69, 95% CI 7.37-10.01).
(11) Workers in the following job categories experienced the highest annual mean PbB levels: paste machine operators (battery plants), solder-grinders (assembly plants), and crane operators (foundries).
(12) Blood samples were obtained from volunteers who were occupationally exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a Finnish iron foundry and from referents not known to be occupationally exposed to this class of chemical carcinogens.
(13) An estimation is made that 24,889 workers employed in ferrous and nonferrous foundries are at risk of silica-related pulmonary effects.
(14) A significant hearing threshold shift was observed at 4 kHz among the foundry workers when compared with non-exposed controls.
(15) The major gases evolved from foundry molds have been determined in the laboratory.
(16) The subjects were 3,425 workers with at least one year's employment in an iron foundry sometime between 1918 and December 31, 1972.
(17) For decades hand-held instruments have been widely used in foundries for material densening and cast after treatment, which introduce a vibration into the hand-arm-system.
(18) The prevalence of sensitization was studied in a group of 76 foundry workers with occupational exposure to diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI).
(19) The results of the noise measurements obtained in three foundries, two of cast-iron and one of aluminium, are reported.
(20) High concentrations of most metals were found in areas close to the local steel foundry.
Melter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, melts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plants with melter systems produced a sterile product which was recontaminated before reaching the finished stage.
(2) Snow tyres, chains and studs are snapped up, some streets are declared no-parking zones because they lie on snowplough routes, giant snow melters are fired up for the winter, and caravans of snowploughs are dispatched to runways and highways.