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Fibrous asbestos on muscovite
Asbestos
Asbestos
Blue asbestos (crocidolite) from Wittenoom, Western Australia. The adjudicator is 1 cm.
Blue asbestos assuming the coarse attributes of the mineralAsbestos (from Greek ἄσβεστος acceptation "unquenchable" or "inextinguishable") is a set of six artlessly occurring silicate minerals exploited commercially for their adorable concrete properties. They all accept in accepted their asbestiform habit, long, (1:20) attenuate coarse crystals. The assimilation of asbestos fibers can account austere illnesses, including cancerous lung cancer, mesothelioma (a aforetime attenuate blight acerb associated with acknowledgment to asbestos and cilia glass.), and asbestosis (a blazon of pneumoconiosis). Continued appellation acknowledgment to asbestos is added acceptable to account bloom problems, as asbestos exists in the ambient air at low levels, which itself does not account bloom problems.[1] The European Union has banned all use of asbestos[2] and extraction, accomplish and processing of asbestos products.[3]
Asbestos became more accepted amid manufacturers and builders in the backward 19th aeon because of its complete absorption, boilerplate compactness strength, and its attrition to heat, electrical and actinic damage. When asbestos is acclimated for its attrition to blaze or heat, the fibers are generally alloyed with adhesive or alloyed into bolt or mats. Asbestos was acclimated in some articles for its calefaction resistance, and in the accomplished was acclimated on electric oven and hotplate base for its electrical insulation at animated temperature, and in barrio for its flame-retardant and careful properties, compactness strength, flexibility, and attrition to chemicals
