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Dust conditions at selected briquetting works in south Wales.
At a conference on coal-workers' pneumoconiosis called in Cardiff in January 1947 by the Minister of Fuel and Power, it was suggested that it might be possible to re-employ men certified as cases of coal-worker's pneumoconiosis in the briquetting industry, in which the Minister anticipated an expansion. The Industrial Pulmonary Disease Committee of the Medical Research Council subsequently disc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Scientific American
سال: 1910
ISSN: 0036-8733
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican12101910-380supp