Pollution fills your brain with metal particles

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3090, 2016, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Barbara Maher of Lancaster University in the UK and her team looked at the brains of 37 people who had lived in Manchester in the UK or Mexico City. All contained millions of iron oxide nanoparticles per gram of brain tissue. A closer look at six brains found that round particles outnumbered angular crystals 100 to one. Crystal forms of iron oxide are more likely to have a natural source, whereas round particles normally come from melting iron at high temperatures