Respirator
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A respirator is type of mask designed to protect the wearer from inhaling hazardous atmospheres including lead fumes, vapors, gases and particulate matter such as dusts and airborne pathogens such as
White, disposable cup N95 filtering facepiece respirator
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The Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster memorial grave site
Types of respirators by physical form.
Elastomeric respirator
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Elastomeric respirators, also called reusable air-purifying respirators, seal to the face with elastomeric material, which may be a natural or synthetic rubber. They are generally reusable. Full-face
Respirator
…relatively inexpensive, single-use, disposable face masks, known as filtering facepiece respirators, reusable models with replaceable cartridges called elastomeric respirators, to powered air-purifying respirators (PAPR), which use a pump or fan to constantly move air through a filter and supply purified air into a mask…
Protective P100 half-face elastomeric filter mask worn by a NYPD officer; proprietary 3M pink pancake filters
Similar mask with generic flat disk filters.
A protester in Venezuela wearing a gas mask, an elastomeric respirator with chemical cartridges.
The manufacturer-specific cartridge filter. Colour-coding suggests that this brown-banded cartridge is a different standard from the yellow-banded cartridges the protestor is using.