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chrysotile::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of chrysotile
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Russia is the world's biggest chrysotile producer, China the biggest consumer.
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Applications where chrysotile might be used include the use of joint compound.
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In the United States, chrysotile has been the most commonly used type of asbestos.
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Lizardite and chrysotile can form at low temperatures very near the Earth's surface.
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Tremolite often contaminates chrysotile asbestos, thus creating an additional hazard.
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Chrysotile asbestos, like all other forms of asbestos, has produced tumors in animals.
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One mineral in the serpentine group, chrysotile, is a type of asbestos.
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Nonetheless, many health experts say chrysotile asbestos can be deadly.
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Canada and Russia are among the top five nations mining the mineral, also called chrysotile.
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- A grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos
- Chrysotile or white asbestos is the most commonly encountered form of asbestos,U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2005). "." . accounting for approximately 95% of the asbestos in place in the United StatesOccupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor (2007). ...
- A fibrous silicate mineral with the chemical formula Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4; a form of serpentine asbestos
- A flexible, chemically-resistant, nonflammable fibrous mineral with high tensile strength.
- Is an asbestiform subgroup within the serpentine group of minerals.
- Silicate of magnesium and one of the six fibrous minerals forming the group called asbestos. Chrysotile made up close to all of industrial asbestos and is the only "non-amphibole" asbestos-belonging to the serpentine category.
- The most commonly used commercial form of asbestos.
- The technical name for white asbestos.
