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PRACTICALLY all types of dust fibrosis of the lungs are now known to be manifestations of the presence of silicon, though in the older textbooks several forms of pneumoconiosis are described according to the different dusts which were supposed to have produced them. Usually the element is present in the form of the oxide silica, and it is generally held that, with the exception of the silicate asbestos, the more complex compounds of silicon are incapable of producing the disease.
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Minerals Causing Silicosis. Nature 132, 941 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132941a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132941a0