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Ventilation Related to Air Enclosures in Laboratories

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As we have seen, laboratories in health buildings are sources of many toxic hazards. Even if protective air enclosures are used for those operations which give rise to particular hazards or obnoxious materials, laboratories as a whole still contain indefinite hazards, smells and fumes, and it is most desirable that some degree of ventilation be arranged.

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© 1981 P. A. F. White

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White, P.A.F. (1981). Ventilation Related to Air Enclosures in Laboratories. In: Protective Air Enclosures in Health Buildings. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05057-4_7

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