Dust aluminum

Group E Gonductive dust and metal dust aluminum, magnesium, and their commercial alloys... 

Toxic chemical release reporting Community right-to-know aluminum (fume or dust) aluminum oxide (fibrous forms) Yes 40 CFR 372.65 EPA 1987c... 

Lung fibrosis occurs with a buildup of fibrous material inside lung cavities. The fibers are rich in collagen, the tough, fibrous protein that gives strength to bone and connective tissue. Chronic fibrosis can result from pulmonary exposure to aluminum dust, aluminum abrasives, chromium(VI), coal dust, kaolin clay dust, ozone, phosgene, silica, and finely divided mineral talc. 

Chemical leach tests on the bulk settled dust samples showed that the dusts are quite chemically reactive. Leach solutions have high alkali-nities, due to the rapid partial dissolution of calcium hydroxide from concrete particles. Indoor dust samples produced higher pH levels (11.8-12.4) and alkalinities (—600 mg CaCOa) than outdoor dusts (pH 8.2-10.4 alkalinity —30mgL CaCOa), indicating that outdoor dust samples had reacted with rainfall or other water prior to collection. Thurston et al (2002) found that the leachate pH of the dusts decreased with decreasing particle size. Some metals or metalloids in the dusts (aluminum, chromium, antimony, molybdenum, barium, copper, zinc, cobalt, nickel) are readily leached by deionized water many of these form oxyanion species or carbonate complexes that are most mobile at the alkaline pH s generated by the leachates. 

E Combustible metal dusts aluminum. Dusts and flying... 

Normally nonflammable material in hnely powdered form (dust, aluminum, magnesium, etc.)... 

Except for siUca and natural abrasives containing free siUca, the abrasive materials used today are classified by NIOSH as nuisance dust materials and have relatively high permissable dust levels (55). The OSHA TWA allowable total dust level for aluminum oxide, siUcon carbide, boron carbide, ceria, and other nuisance dusts is 10 mg/m. SiUca, in contrast, is quite toxic as a respkable dust for cristobaUte [14464-46-1] and tridymite [15468-32-3] the allowable TWA level drops to 0.05 mg/m and the TWA for quartz [14808-60-7] is set at 0.1 mg/m. Any abrasive that contains free siUca in excess of 1% should be treated as a potential health hazard if it is in the form of respkable dust. Dust masks are requked for those exposed to such materials (see Industrial hygene). 

Significant amounts of cryoHte are also recovered from waste material ia the manufacture of aluminum. The carbon lining of the electrolysis ceUs, which may contain 10—30% by weight of cryoHte, is extracted with sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate solution and the cryoHte precipitated with carbon dioxide (28). Gases from operating ceUs containing HF, CO2, and fluorine-containing dusts may be used for the carbonation (29). 

Environmental Protection. Fumes resulting from exposure of anhydrous aluminum chloride to moisture are corrosive and acidic. Collection systems should be provided to conduct aluminum chloride dusts or gases to a scmbbing device. The choice of equipment, usually one of economics, ranges from simple packed-tower scmbbers to sophisticated high energy devices such as those of a Venturi design (11). 

Shipping of aluminum hydroxide powders is usually in paper bags of 10 to 25 kg size. Bulk shipment by road or rail wagons is also common. Aluminum hydroxides are not hygroscopic, but could be dusty and precautions against dust inhalation should be taken during handling. 

Some cutting fluids, eg, oils, may present a fire ha2ard. Some work materials, eg, magnesium, aluminum, titanium (under certain conditions), and uranium, in finely divided form, also present fire ha2ards. Very small metal chips or dust may ignite. 

Aminoisoxazoles are obtained by reduction of 4-nitroisoxazoles with amalgamated aluminum, tin(II) chloride and hydrochloric acid, or zinc dust and acetic acid (62HC(17)1, p. 73). 

High 50,000 0,000 8-16 Aluminum, copper, zinc, vanadium, calcined dolomite, hme, magnesia, magnesium carhonates, sodium chloride, sodium and potassium compounds Flue dust, natural and reduced iron ores Flue dust, iron oxide, natural and reduced iron ores, scrap metals... 

Aluminum reduction plants Materials handling Buckets and belt Conveyor or pneumatic conveyor Anode and cathode electrode preparation Cathode (haldng) Anode (grinding and blending) Particulates (dust) Hydrocarbon emissions from binder Particulates (dust) Exhaust systems and baghouse Exhaust systems and mechanical collectors... 

Diphenylmethane has been prepared with aluminum chloride as a catalyst from methylene chloride and benzene, from chloroform and benzene as a by-product in the preparation of triphenylmethane, and from benzyl chloride and benzene. It has been prepared by the reduction of benzophenone with hydriodic acid and phosphorus, or with sodium and alcohol. It has also been made by heating a solution of benzyl chloride in benzene with zinc dust, or with zinc chloride. The above method is only a slight modification of the original method of Hirst and Cohen. ... 

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