[
US
/æsˈbɛstəs/
]
[ UK /æsbˈɛstəs/ ]
[ UK /æsbˈɛstəs/ ]
NOUN
- 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