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49. AVENUE LOUISE
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';Mr. Frank Dexter
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Union Carbide Corporation
Chemicals & Plastics Division
270 Park Avenue
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' - 'Re: ASBESTOS TOXICOLOGY
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V;.Dear Frank:
- During a recent conference on Physics and Chemistry of ^Asbestos Minerals at Oxford, England, I met with rcpre-
scntativcs of the group who arc coordinating an analytical program for asbestos samples. These were:
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-'-.in trace element analyses of standard samples.
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to Niagara Falls and is aware of the requirements of the' '
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justify also doing some of them.
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unanswered and realistically there is not much evidence yet
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VI expect to be in New York during the week of August 14 and ; ^ would, lijke. to -talk to you. morei- about thhiis and other asbestos '
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