New insights on the biomineralisation process developing in human lungs around inhaled asbestos fibres

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• who: Fabrizio Bardelli from the XAS is a chemical selective tool informative of the oxidation state and of the chemical and crystallographic neighbourhood of a selected element Several XANES spectra were acquired at the Fe, edge at the , beamline on different points of selected hAB using beam spot sizes of, ., ×​, ., μ​m2. Reference XANES spectra of commercial horse spleen ferritin (Sigma-Aldrich) and of other relevant Fe commercial compounds (magnetite, hematite, hemin, haematin, and Fe(II)-L-ascorbate by Sigma-Aldrich, and Fe metallic foil by MaTeck) were measured along with the samples (Figure , in the SI). The . . .
  

   

  

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