Re: asbestos

From: Aidan Karley (aidan_at_mynameplus1.demon.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:00:08 GMT

In article <csq4sf$ble$1@news.astound.net>, Robert Flory wrote:
> Silicosis will kill you too. With asbestos it is the crystal structure which
> leads to a fibrous structure ... sharp needle like structures that do real
> damage to the lungs. A lot worse than gravel road variety dust. Asbestos is
> really several mineral that occur in a fibrous form.
>
       Last year myself and another geologist were talking as we walked along
the road to the camp canteen on a job in Siberia, when I interrupted him to
point out the nice vein of asbestos in one chunk of roadstone. And another nice
little vein.
       That made us popular.
       Nice samples of asbestos though. Might put one up for the earthquake
competition, if I win (and the Solomon Islands lose). 

-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10'11" N,  02°08'43"  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
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