The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00064165%3A_____%2F22%3A10441582" target="_blank" >RIV/00064165:_____/22:10441582 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11110/22:10441582
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822946-0.00023-4" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822946-0.00023-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822946-0.00023-4" target="_blank" >10.1016/B978-0-12-822946-0.00023-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Osmium
Original language description
The chapter brings the overview of the toxic effects of osmium and its compounds. Osmium metal, Os, is poorly absorbed and exposure is unlikely to cause toxicity. Osmium may oxidise if the metal is heated or finely divided to produce osmium tetroxide, osmic acid, OsO4, non-combustible, colourless to pale yellow solid with a disagreeable odour. It is the most common compound of Os and the main compound of toxicological interest. OsO4 sublimes at a room temperature and is a strong oxidising agent. It may lead to severe burns to the eyes, and skin, irritation of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract and death. Even short-term exposure to low concentrations of OsO4 vapour may cause lacrimation, coughing, headache and dizziness. Osmium tetroxide may turn skin and cornea black and lead to blindness. Exposures to osmium relates mainly to accidents at work with either inhalational exposure, or spilling solutions of OsO4 in the skin or in the eyes, which may lead to osmium absorption. Median osmium blood concentration measured in the controls was 0.002 µg/L. After an exposure of a laboratory technician to osmium tetroxide solution during an accident in a laboratory, a blood serum concentration of 0.22 µg/L was measured after the exposure of the skin and eyes).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30104 - Pharmacology and pharmacy
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals
ISBN
978-0-12-822946-0
Number of pages of the result
9
Pages from-to
639-647
Number of pages of the book
1011
Publisher name
Academic Press
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
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