Underestimation of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) …
talline or amorphous. Crystalline structures of silica oxide exist as polymorphs and include quartz, cristobalite and tridymite. The most common type of crystalline silica in the Earth's crust is quartz. Quartz is a major component of soils and environment (Liu et al. 2013) makes up 90–95 % of all sand and silt fractions in a soil (IARC ...