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Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters, suits, fireman's gloves, etc.

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All types of asbestos are potentially carcinogenic when inhaled.

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Any of asbestos-like forms of several minerals, asbestiforms

Rock crystal and asbestos are still found in the district of Paphos.

Asbestos was formerly mined in the western and south-western parts of the state.

Cylinders, tanks and independent boilers should be encased in a non-conducting material such as silicate cotton, thick felt or asbestos composition.

With another form of gas stove coke is used in place of the perforated asbestos; the fire is started with the gas, which, when the coke is well alight, may be dispensed with, and the fire kept up with coke in the usual way.

Dennstedt, which was first proposed in 1902, the substance is vaporized in a tube containing at one end platinum foil, platinized quartz, or platinized asbestos.

The metal to be tested was prepared in the form of a ring, upon which were wound primary and secondary coils of copper wire insulated with asbestos.

To prevent the bottom of the apparatus being knocked out by the impact of the substance, a layer of sand, asbestos or sometimes mercury is placed in the tube.

Experiments have also been made with a device in which the air-supply is obtained by the evaporation of liquid air absorbed in asbestos.

A perforated cone, similarly coated with asbestos and fitted into a conical funnel, is sometimes employed.

Copper and asbestos are the principal mineral products of that part of Quebec included in the region now under description, although many other minerals are known and already worked to some extent.

Magnesium is found widely distributed in nature, chiefly in the forms of silicate, carbonate and chloride, and occurring in the minerals olivine, hornblende, talc, asbestos, meerschaum, augite, dolomite, magnesite, carnallite, kieserite and kainite.

Lignite occurs at many points around Coimbra, Leiria and Santarem; asphalt abounds near Alcobaca; phosphorite, asbestos and sulphur are common south of the Tagus.

Among its industrial establishments are rolling mills, tube and pipe works, furnaces, steel mills, a brass foundry, and manufactories of electrical railway supplies, boxes, asbestos coverings, enamel work and ice.

The lead sulphate, re-precipitated in the filtrate by an excess of sulphuric acid and alcohol, is then filtered on an asbestos felt in a Gooch crucible, washed with dilute sulphuric acid and alcohol, ignited, and weighed.

Enclosures of other minerals (rutile, chlorite, haematite, gothite, actinolite, asbestos and many others) are extremely frequent in crystals of quartz.

Rising from the plains are chains of isolated flat-topped hills such as the Karree Bergen, the Asbestos mountains and Kuruman hills, comparatively unimportant ranges.

The pre-Cape rocks of the northern region occur in the Campbell Rand, Asbestos mountains, Matsap and Langebergen, and in the Schuftebergen.

Asbestos is mined near Prieska, in which neighbourhood there are also nitrate beds.

Winkler showed that this division was best obtained by soaking asbestos with a solution of platinum chloride and reducing the platinum to the metallic state, and he described later a specially active kind of "contact substance," prepared from platinum chloride at a low temperature.

Minerals which were not mined commercially in 1902 include asbestos, which occurs in Spartanburg and Pickens counties; fullers'-earth; graphite in Spartanburg and Greenville counties; iron ores in the north and north-west portions of the state; iron pyrites in Spartanburg and York counties; talc, bismuth, ochre, pyrites, ' galena, brown coal, malachite, phosphate of lead and barytes.

Anyone who uses your premises, and who disturbs asbestos that has deteriorated or been damaged and releases fibers, can be at risk.

Vehicles Some vehicle brake shoes or pads contain asbestos.

Work which will disturb insulation board, lagging or sprayed asbestos must be carried out by licensed asbestos contractors.

The starting point of the duty is to manage any asbestos in a building, not to remove all asbestos.

Do you know what the rules are about removing asbestos?

In a removal job at a large Birmingham store airborne asbestos outside the work area was measured at 400 times the permitted level.

Two unlicensed cowboys were allowed to strip brown asbestos from old pipework.

Worryingly, large amounts of deadly asbestos have been fly-tipped in the greater London area recently.

Damaged asbestos can be very harmful so it is important that it is dealt with quickly and effectively, please do not ignore it.

Although Class 101 vehicles were nominally stripped of blue asbestos by BR, residual traces should be assumed in all cases.

Asbestos cement One of the most common uses of asbestos cement One of the most common uses of asbestos in the home is in asbestos cement products.

The regulations also extended the existing prohibition on the supply and use of products containing amphibole asbestos to those containing chrysotile.

The main types of asbestos diseases asbestosis A disabling and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs causing severe breathlessness and chest pains.

Showing asbestos from a conveyor belt being loaded into sacks.

Apparently, the roof had to be painted brown by order of the local council, rather than the natural green of the asbestos.

A former caretaker at the school confirmed that ceilings in the school were made from asbestos tiles.

Even published studies are now agreeing that in the pleura they find more chrysotile, mainly short fibers, than other types of asbestos.

A revetted component store with corrugated asbestos cladding still stands in a wooded area to the west of the high explosive magazines.

Documents cited by the EWG authors showing the complicity of major asbestos defendants and their insurers in the American asbestos epidemic are disturbing.

These licensed contractors have to follow regulations to ensure asbestos is safely removed.

Asbestos disease victims should not be caricatured as part of the compensation culture.

Most of these cases could be due to other sources of asbestos exposure, mainly domestic or environmental.

Asbestos can lay dormant without causing any adverse effects for many years.

He spoke of the laggers mixing asbestos in 40 gallon drums.

Exposure to blue or brown asbestos dust can cause mesothelioma, a tumor of the pleura, which is the lining of the lung.

Exposure to asbestos can also cause a benign pleural effusion.

Foam and coat totally encapsulates Asbestos giving a fully adhered seamless roofing system.

In our population 62% of cases could be attributed to occupational asbestos exposure.

New Lords ruling could put asbestos claims at risk Workers who develop cancer from asbestos exposure will have to fight harder to prove liability.

Plastic floor tiles, cushion flooring, roofing felts, ropes, and blankets can also contain asbestos.