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What is amianthus?

What is amianthus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A type of asbestos with long, soft, thin fibers.
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For this reason, the builders must dig through the mountains where there is amianthus and other harmful substances.
Deposits of amianthus, a fine, silky asbestos, are mined.
The ancients knew the art of spinning amianthus and weaving it into incombustible cloth in which the corpses of important people were burned.
With the discovery of amianthus, we came up with the idea of setting up an amianthus cardboard industry in the city of Traipu in the state of Alagoas.
During excavation work in gneiss on the NRLA construction site at Amsteg, a small number of clefts containing amianthus have been encountered.
The Chinese and the Corsicans blend the fibres of amianthus in their pottery to give it tenacity.

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