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THE industrial disease of silicosis has been postulated to have a relation to the dissolution of particles of mineral silicates in the lung. Whether this 'solubility theory' of silicosis be true, considerable interest is attached to the production of soluble silica from finely divided mineral dusts. The amount of silicic acid which a mineral form of silica will yield in solution is exceedingly small when it is present as crystals or as coarse fragments. But if it be reduced to a particle size of the order of the dust in the air (that is, < 1 to 10 microns) then the dissolution rate becomes appreciable.
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01 October 1937
In the second part of the table included in the letter “Solubility of Silica Dusts” by Dr. E. J. King in NATURE of August 21, p. 320, for “acetie fluid” read “ascitic fluid”.
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Emmons and Wilcox, Amer. Mineral. 22 256 (1937).
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KING, E. Solubility of Silica Dusts. Nature 140, 320 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140320a0
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