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Tannery
Definition:
(n.) A place where the work of tanning is carried on.
(n.) The art or process of tanning.
Example Sentences:
(1) The development of spraying of sludges and composts will increase the quantity and efficiency of chromium in vegetals, because of various factors: the wastes of many industries: chromium plating plants, tanneries, painting and dyeing industries throw out hexavalent chromium; if the sewage sludges are purified by an irradiation treatment, it will tend to oxidize the whole chromium in hexavalent forms; at last, the presence of sewage sludges in the arable soil favours the assimilation of chromium by inhibiting that of iron (Figure 1).
(2) Industrial sources for offensive odours, such as meat, fish and other food processing plants, leather tanneries, sewage and domestic refuse processing plants, oil refineries, paper pulp, paint and plastic manufacturers, are outlined.
(3) The mortality of 2926 male workers at the tanneries in the "leather area" of Tuscany was examined from 1950 to 1983 comparing it with the national mortality.
(4) Four hundred and ninety-seven tannery workers and 80 employees not engaged in leather work, from 20 tanneries, were interviewed and underwent physical examination.
(5) A Cr(VI)-resistant yeast, designated strain DBVPG 6502, was isolated from a sewage treatment plant receiving wastes from tannery industries in Italy.
(6) A cluster of 7 lung cancer deaths among workers of a small tannery in Biella is reported.
(7) After completing 200 miles of road north from Khartoum to Adbara, and another 100 miles on towards Port Sudan, the government reneged on Bin Laden's £20m fee, instead giving him a majority share in a tannery, worth £5m.
(8) Even in view of critical questions about validity it seems likely that this excess might be related to exposure to chemicals in tannery work.
(9) Unfortunately that has meant that whereas we used to have tanneries more local to us, they’ve all gone offshore as well.
(10) The spores besides to cause infections of the workmen employed in the hide manufacture (industrial anthrax) through the effluents and solid refuses from the tanneries, are dispended upon the tiled ground and determine outbreak the haematic anthrax in the animals and agricultural coutaneus anthrax in the men.
(11) A significant excess of deaths was observed, however, due to accidental causes in one tannery and cirrhosis of the liver, suicide, and alcoholism in the other.
(12) The mortality of 833 male tannery workers known to have been employed in the industry in 1939 and who were followed up to the end of 1982 was studied.
(13) Regular meetings with tannery owners, the training of tannery workers in first aid, and support for the installation of safety and health councils in tanneries are the main programme activities.
(14) Serum and urinary Cr levels of a selected group of men exposed to CrIII in four Southern Ontario tanneries were compared with those of men not exposed to Cr.
(15) Tolerance level to trivalent chromium-Cr(salen)(H2O)2+ and hexavalent chromium-K2Cr2O7 was assessed in P. aeruginosa isolated from tannery effluent soil.
(16) Another interesting result is the excess of lung cancer among tannery workers.
(17) Hair samples were collected from 71 male tannery workers from four southern Ontario tanneries and from 53 male controls not exposed to Cr in the workplace.
(18) The findings of this study are consistent with those of the only other mortality investigation of leather tannery employees.
(19) Metal-, construction- and tannery workers were more frequently involved.
(20) Workers were studied at a tannery that operated from 1873 to 1960, once one of the biggest in Scandinavia.
Tanyard
Definition:
(n.) An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.