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Conversely, there are few risk factors other than asbestos exposure for mesothelioma.
In Jameson, an employee contracted mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos at work.
This is thermally bonded, inorganic wadding developed to replace asbestos on railway carriages.
And as yet there is no cure for mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung lining caused by asbestos.
A demolitions expert has spoken out to quash concerns over dust coming from a Colchester building site, which contains asbestos.
His solicitors said he was in good health until diagnosed in December 2002 with mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure.
It was only seven months earlier that the asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, had been diagnosed.
Exposure to asbestos is usually occupational, and includes shipyard workers, pipefitters, miners, and installers of brake linings and insulation.
Commonly, ceiling and floor tiles, pipe insulation, vehicle brake linings, cement, and mortar contain asbestos.
At the time, asbestos victims and unions warned it was a dodge to try and avoid escalating liabilities.
Residents in a Swindon tower block fear the council could be exposing them to deadly asbestos particles.
Geraldton City Council has discovered asbestos behind its Civic Centre and has begun excavating the area to remove the dangerous material.
When acoustic texture material is wet, asbestos fibers are withheld from release into the air.
His widow Rita called for more to be done across Bradford to warn former millworkers of the possible effects of asbestos.
The term asbestos is used for several hydrated silicate minerals that occur in fibrous forms.
It can then legally use the grants to weatherproof the building, remove asbestos and build roads and sewers from next spring.
There is an inherent uncertainty in any actuarial estimates of asbestos liabilities.
In his necropsy of a Bantu man in 1956 he found asbestos bodies in the lungs and insisted that this was a mesothelioma.
Homes built from 1920 to 1960 might contain asbestos in floor tiles, siding, or pipe insulation.
The blue asbestos was completely exposed and unsealed when the coaches arrived in the interior department.
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The fibrous variety of serpentine is the principal source of asbestos, an amphibole asbestos being less common.
The asbestos of Italy and Cyprus is anthophyllite, more like the Georgia material.
In Georgia the asbestos, which is anthophyllite, occurs in lenticular masses in peridotite associated with gneiss.
Other silicates of magnesia used for paper-making are agalite and asbestine, the latter being a finely ground asbestos.
It is in operations such as this that the asbestos box will be found of great use.
This liability to breakage is reduced, but not eliminated, by the asbestos annealing.
Cars are now being built of steel, and of combinations of metal with asbestos.
Crocidolite or blue asbestos is similar to chrysotile but somewhat inferior in fire-resisting qualities.
The whiter and more delicate varieties of asbestos, particularly those which possess a satiny lustre.
This schist rock when rich in copper, as I have said elsewhere, exudes a substance of a nature similar to asbestos.
The flask was then allowed to cool, the entering air being filtered through a plug of glass wool or asbestos.
Enormous deposits of haematite iron and asbestos are known to exist, but so far have not been worked.
Here he built the old hance Trail into the Canyon, and discovered numerous copper and asbestos mines.
The true asbestos, however, he says, is a fibrous variety of tremolite or hornblende.
Turn into a hot well oiled pan and set on an asbestos pad back from the direct heat of the fire.
For this infibulation of girls, as it is a substance not subject to corruption, they use the fibres of the asbestos.
The wickless stoves are equipped with a ring of asbestos which serves the purpose of a wick.
But as for Jason himself, the white flame curled around his body, without injuring him a jot more than if he had been made of asbestos.
While it's true that the overwhelming majority of asbestos cases settle, the existence of potential setoffs affects settlement negotiations.
A suitable bit of wood may be substituted for the asbestos on occasion.
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