Sentences with phrase «exposed by miners»
Taking advantage of fossils exposed by miners, an evolutionary biologist probes the adaptations of ancient mammals.
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The machines handle the decaying element's radiation better than human miners and can tolerate the radon gas released by the ore; early Navajo miners of uranium in the U.S. — and their families exposed to residual radioactive dust and debris as well as contaminated water — developed lung cancer and other ailments by the 1970s and 1980s.
Documented and Potential Occupational Health Hazards to Uranium Miners Exposed to Ionizing Radiation, by Lawrence D. Weiss, Ph.D., July 1980.