Asbestos should be treated like the hazardous material it is. Take action to prevent the fibers becoming airborne. If they are likely to become airborne, use enclosures to control their spread and personal protective equipment, ventilation, and material wetting to prevent people in the enclosure from breathing the airborne fibers.
Asbestos is a mineral, not a disease requiring a cure. Several diseases are caused by asbestos. There is no cure for asbestosis, a scaring of the lungs. But there are treatments that can alleviate is effects for a time. Lung cancer caused by asbestos is treated and "cured" the same way other lung cancers are - surgery, chemotherapy, hope. Mesothelioma, another cancer caused by asbestos, has no cure and no effective treatment.
Asbestos testing is:the process of analyzing a product in a laboratory to see if it contains asbestos.the process of sampling and analyzing air to see what the concentration, if any, of asbestos fibers in the air might be.
Asbestos (particularly blue asbestos)
An asbestos square is a square of a material that contains asbestos in it.
The difference between the two is that an asbestos gasket uses asbestos as a reinforcing fiber while a non-asbestos gasket does not.
Buildings were often built with materials that contained asbestos. Asbestos abatement is the removal of the asbestos, or other treatment such as encapsulation, that will prevent asbestos fibers from being released into the air.
For asbestos inspection, visit the Asbestos Inspection Services website. For asbestos removal, Asbestos Removal, Inc. or Alpha Environ are better choices.
There is no such thing as an asbestos leak, unless you have a container of asbestos and the container is leaking.
Asbestos is generally manufactured by processing mined asbestos fibers.
Not naturally, cotton does not contain asbestos.
No. Asbestos is a mineral, not a metal.
Asbestos has no discernible odor.