ASBESTUS; ASBESTOS

n.

1 definition — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


n.

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.


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