* Occupational and environmental lead exposure to adolescent workers in battery recycling workshops.
- Lead (Pb), as other environmental neurotoxicant substances, has the capability to interfere with many biochemical events present in cells throughout the body. In the present study, the environmental and occupational exposure to Pb has been assessed by analyzing the scalp hair samples of male adolescents aged 12-15 years, who have worked for the last 12-36 months in Pb battery recycling workshops (BRWs). For comparative purposes, gender and age-matched subjects living in the vicinity of recycling workshops as well as in areas without industrial activity were used as controls. The scalp hair samples were oxidized by acid in a microwave oven prior to determination of Pb by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry. The results indicated that both workers and nonworking exposed subjects had higher levels of Pb than nonexposed controls. The contents of Pb in scalp hair of adolescent workers in the present study were compared with those reported in other studies.
=>1.酸っぱい, 2.辛辣な, 3.酸, 4.《俗語》麻薬, LSD
Overview of noun acid
The noun acid has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) acid -- (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning
litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)
2. acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
pane, superman, window pane, Zen -- (street name for lysergic acid diethylamide)
Overview of adj acid
The adj acid has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent,
vitriolic -- (harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a
barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering
criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a
sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique")
2. acidic, acid, acidulent, acidulous -- (being sour to the taste)
3. acid -- (having the characteristics of an acid; "an acid reaction")
--- WordNet end ---