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Decades later, it was noticed to occur amongst gas plant and oil shale workers, and it was later found that certain constituents of tar, soot, and oils, known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to cause cancer in laboratory animals. The related cancer, mule spinners' carcinoma was blamed on the carcinogenic content of shale oil that was used to lubricate the rapidly revolving mule spindles.
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