title: An assessment of the contribution from paint flakes to the lead content of some street and household dusts.
abstract: A method has been developed for estimating crudely the quantity of lead in dusts derived from paint flakes. This involves an assessment of the paint mass in the dust: gravimetrically in the coarse fractions, and by microscopic measurement in the fine fractions. Some street and house dust samples were examined. The street dusts contained up to 20% of lead from paint, and the house dusts up to 15%. However, it was the least lead-polluted dusts that contained the highest proportions of lead from paint. In the samples examined the paint flakes contained only low to moderate amounts of lead (0.07-4.21% w/w) and in the case of high lead paints the contribution from this source could be considerably greater.
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D003116:Color; D004391:Dust / Q000032:analysis*; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead / Q000032:analysis*; D010150:Paint
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D004391:Dust; D007854:Lead