Toxicology   Ceramics, Glass & Metallurgy

TABLE OF CONTENTS:   INTRODUCTION    ALUMINA    AMMONIA     ANTIMONY & INORGANIC COMPOUNDS    ARSENIC & COMPOUNDS    BARIUM & COMPOUNDS    BERYLLIUM MONOXIDE     BISMUTH TRIOXIDE     BORON     CADMIUM & COMPOUNDS     CALCIUM CARBONATE     CARBON MONOXIDE     CESIUM OXIDE     CHROMIUM & COMPOUNDS     COBALT & COMPOUNDS      COPPER & COMPOUNDS     CRYOLITE     DIOXINS     DOLOMITE     DYSPROSIUM OXIDE     FIBERS, MAN-MADE     GALLIUM OXIDE     GERMANIUM DIOXIDE     GOLD TRICHLORIDE     HAFNIUM OXIDE     HYDROFLUORIC ACID     ILMENITE     IRON OXIDES & HEMATITE     LEAD & INORGANIC COMPOUNDS     LITHIUM     MAGNESIUM CARBONATE     MANGANESE & INORGANIC COMPOUNDS     MOLYBDENUM & COMPOUNDS     NICKEL & COMPOUNDS     NIOBIUM OXIDE     PARAFFIN WAX & FUMES     PLATINUM & SOLUBLE SALTS     POTASSIUM CARBONATE     POTASSIUM DICHROMATE     POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE     RARE EARTHS     RUBIDIUM    RUTILE    SILICOSIS AND SCREENING    SILVER &COMPOUNDS     SODIUM AZIDE     SODIUM CARBONATE     SODIUM SILICATE     STRONTIUM    TALC    TANTALUM PENTOXIDE     TELLURIUM & COMPOUNDS     THALLIUM OXIDE     THORIUM DIOXIDE     TIN & INORGANIC COMPOUNDS     TITANIUM DIOXIDE     TUNGSTEN & COMPONDS     URANIUM, DEPLETED     VANADIUM & COMPOUNDS     WOLLASTONITE     ZINC & COMPOUNDS     ZIRCONIUM & COMPOUNDS     MISCELLANEOUS:    Dermatoses     Metal Fume Fever     Microorganisms     Pregnancy     Radiation      Respiratory Protection

About the Author:  Edouard Bastarache lives in Québec, Canada, and has a colorful history. He studied surgery, internal medicine and neuroendecrine physiology and was a medical researcher and consultant in Occupational & Environmental Medicine between 1971 and 1983. Since 1983 he has been a full-time consultant in occupational and environmental medicine. At the same time as his medical studies, he studied ceramics under Julien Cloutier at La Boutique d'Argile (The Clay Shop) and later also taught at the same school. Bastarache now lives in the Sorel-Tracy region of Québec, near the St. Lawrence river. He uses waste materials from steel plants located in the area to color many of his glazes and clays. He fires most of his work to cone 9 1/2 in reduction in a 60 cubic foot downdraft gas kiln. His first book, "Substitutions for Raw Ceramic Materials" is available in 8 languages: French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil), and Esperanto.