Respirable Sentence Examples

He concluded that it was not common air, but the substance, "in much greater perfection," that rendered common air respirable and a supporter of combustion.

The idea that this film of bacteria oxidizes the alcohol beneath by merely condensing atmospheric oxygen in its interstices, after the manner of spongy platinum, has long been given up; but the explanation of the action as an incomplete combustion, depending on the peculiar respiration of these organisms - much as in the case of nitrifying and sulphur bacteria - is not clear, though the discovery that the acetic bacteria will not only oxidize alcohol to acetic acid, but further oxidize the latter to CO 2 and 01-1 2 supports the view that the alcohol is absorbed by the organism and employed as its respirable substance.

One of his first discoveries at the Pneumatic Institution on the 9th of April 17 9 9 was that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is perfectly respirable, and he narrates that on the next day he became "absolutely intoxicated" through breathing sixteen quarts of it for "near seven minutes."

These methods were then applied to develop and test hypotheses about the impact on exposure patterns of respirable silica and dust.

Respirable fibers can penetrate to the " deep " lung area.

Repeated or prolonged inhalation of excessive concentration of respirable fibers may cause permanent lung injury [4 ].

For these categories, exposure should be kept below the clearance limit of 0.01 respirable fibres/ml of air.