Tungsten products and health protection
Tungsten is a very stable metal element, which is often found in various minerals in nature, but its properties are very stable. Tungsten compounds are harmful to human health. With the continuous expansion of the production scale of tungsten and its products, the use scope of tungsten is becoming wider and wider, and the potential threat of environmental pollution by tungsten is also on the rise. As a substance that can affect the chemical changes in the body and disrupt the biochemical exchange channels, the influence of tungsten on human health should also be paid attention to.
Tungsten carbide powder
Researchers at the university of Exeter in the UK found a link between high levels of tungsten in urine and a higher risk of stroke, particularly in women and people under the age of 50.Even when other factors such as age, socioeconomic status, smoking, body mass index, occupation and alcohol consumption were taken into account, people exposed to the metal were more likely to have a stroke. Although other metals commonly used with tungsten, such as nickel and copper, may also be associated with stroke rates, pathology in a large number of stroke cases indicates that tungsten is the most important factor, the researchers said.
Tungstate
In the production and living, to human health if influential book tungsten compounds, all kinds of tungsten acid salt, such as tungsten oxide and sulfide tungsten, tungsten fluoride, chloride such as tungsten, tungsten phosphide, especially partial tungsten is kind of tungstate easily dissolved in water, if contact with skin and through the food chain and breathing into the human organs, such as would be harmful to the varying degree damage. Therefore, it is required to take protective measures to work in the tungsten environment, and the enterprises producing tungsten should also take corresponding measures to ensure a healthy working environment for the staff and avoid polluting the surrounding natural environment.
Measures to reduce the human and environmental impact of tungsten products
To avoid the harmful effects of exposure to large amounts of tungsten on human health, a few simple Suggestions are as follows:
Personnel working in the tungsten industry environment shall wear gas masks, gloves, glasses, dust-proof clothing and other measures.
The personnel that works in tungsten production or processing environment, check whether tungsten content exceeds standard inside body through medical monitoring to the hospital regularly.
Enterprises should post safety and health tips in the workplace related to tungsten, in addition, enterprises should also take measures to prevent dust leakage, timely workshop cleaning and industrial waste treatment and other work, to prevent secondary pollution.
Other personnel should try to avoid using tungsten contaminated water and food.
