Particles of any solid substance, generally under 30 microns in size, often noted as PM30. There is special concern with PM1 which can get down to PULMONARY ALVEOLI and induce MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION and PHAGOCYTOSIS leading to FOREIGN BODY REACTION and LUNG DISEASES.
    

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Aerosolforschung in der GSF : großes Netzwerk für kleine Teilchen.

Air and its relations to life : being, with some additions, the substance of a course of lectures delivered in the summer of 1874 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain / by Walter Noel Hartley.

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Aerosolforschung in der GSF : großes Netzwerk für kleine Teilchen.

Air and its relations to life : being, with some additions, the substance of a course of lectures delivered in the summer of 1874 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain / by Walter Noel Hartley.