JEOL detects carcinogen asbestos in materials from buildings in Ukraine
Release Date: 2024/04/25
JEOL Ltd. detected a carcinogen (asbestos) from the materials in Ukrainian buildings destroyed in a Russian attack.
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Material from Ukrainian building, with long, thin asbestos fibers at the tips of the arrows (observed with JEM-2100Plus)
Samples of building material were imported from Ukraine with special permission and were analyzed by using two types of JEOL electron microscopes. As a result, chrysotile (white asbestos) was detected in all of the samples.
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Material from Ukrainian building, the long, thin bars on the right are asbestos fibers (observed with JEM-2100Plus)
JEOL will continue to analyze asbestos.
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