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Backscatter SEM Image of Diaper Powder

By Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
SEM images of diaper powder
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Backscatter electron scanning electron microscope images of the diaper powder in which lead particles are brightly lit due to their higher mean atomic weight. Figure 2 from Karwowski and others, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-016-9881-6. Images from the USGS Denver Microbeam Laboratory.

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Toxicants in folk remedies: implications of elevated blood lead in an American-born infant due to imported diaper powder
Karwowski, M.P., Morman, S.A., Plumlee, G.S., Law, T., Kellogg, M., and Woolf, A.D., 2016, Toxicants in folk remedies: implications of elevated blood lead in an American-born infant due to imported diaper powder: Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 39 (5), p. 1133-1143, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-016-9881-6.