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Aerospace Toxicology Overview: Aerial Application and Cabin Air Quality

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The environment extending above and beyond the surface of the planet Earth is referred to as aerospace (Blashfield and Johnson 1969). This word also symbolizes the joint fields of aeronautics and astronautics. The former is the art and science of flight through the atmosphere (Blashfield and Johnson 1969) and the latter is the art and science of space flight (Blashfield and Johnson 1968a). Another term frequently and interchangeably used with aerospace and aeronautics is aviation, which is defined as the art and science of operating powered aircraft (Chaturvedi 2010a, b; The Encyclopedia Americana 1989).

This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the US Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The US Government assumes no liability for the contents or use thereof. The work included in this paper is performed by a US employee as part of his official duty. Under the official duty, this paper has also been produced as a section of an internal technical report of the Office of Aerospace Medicine, Federal Aviation Administration, US Department of Transportation (DOT/FAA/AM-09/8) (Chaturvedi 2009). A part of this study was presented at the 80th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association held during 3–7 May 2009 in Los Angeles, CA.

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Chaturvedi, A.K. (2012). Aerospace Toxicology Overview: Aerial Application and Cabin Air Quality. In: Whitacre, D. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 214. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0668-6_2

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