ArticleMethodsX2020
Dimensional distribution control of elongate mineral particles for their use in biological assays.
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- Assessment of asbestos exposure in Kyrgyzstan through analysis of raw and processed materials, air samples and human lung tissue.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microbe-Mineral Interactions between Asbestos and Thermophilic Chemolithoautotrophic Anaerobes.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Waterborne asbestos: Good practices for surface waters analyses.Frontiers in chemistry · 2023Article
- A new approach to deposit homogeneous samples of asbestos fibres for toxicological testsFrontiers in chemistry · 2023Article
- Asbestos and Other Hazardous Fibrous Minerals: Potential Exposure Pathways and Associated Health Risks.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Multi-scale characterization of glaucophane from Chiavolino (Biella, Italy): implications for international regulations on elongate mineral particles.European journal of mineralogy · 2021Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present method is to reduce the dimensional variability of asbestos, elongate mineral particles, and other asbestiform minerals for use in biological assays. Here, the pristine mineral sample is filtered through two nylon meshes of different sizes to obtain a narrower dimensional distribution following a power law. Furthermore, we show that anoxic preparation, autoclaving and storage of the mineral prior to addition into biological cultures did not affect the mineral's chemical properties. This approach avoids the use of highly reactive chemicals modifying mineralogical characteristics and surface properties, which can affect to a major extent mineral toxicity as well as interactions between minerals and biological matter or biofluids. The method can be combined with additional selective approaches to further refine the dimensional range of the minerals. The advantages of this protocol over previous methods are: •Exclusive use of distilled water and 2-propanol, thus eliminating chemicals that can modify bulk or surface properties of the studied minerals.•Successful sterilization of the resulting mineral particles for use in biological assays without compromising mineralogical characteristics.•Applicability of this method across various types of asbestos, elongate mineral particles and, potentially, other hazardous minerals.
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