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asbestos

[ US /æsˈbɛstəs/ ]
[ UK /æsbˈɛstəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer

How To Use asbestos In A Sentence

  • However, it is clear that asbestos flock falls within that definition.
  • Ms Waterman says asbestos entered their flat through a hole which builders knocked in their wall.
  • The wet mixtures for millboard, paper, and asbestos-cement products are prepared in a beater, as used in paper mills.
  • In the past, asbestos has been widely used by South African companies to produce a wide range of products, including gaskets, seals, brake linings, roofing sheets, gutters and other building products, waste pipes and flower pots.
  • Two firemen in new white asbestos suits had spent thirty minutes wearing looks of bleak disappointment. Bomber
  • Asbestos can be used to insulate a cooking stove.
  • Several powders or dry colours use a base of asbestos, chalk powder or silica.
  • Nine out of ten schools in the South East still contain asbestos. The Sun
  • When acoustic texture material is wet, asbestos fibers are withheld from release into the air.
  • Should asbestos in schools be removed? Times, Sunday Times
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