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Asbestos has been found to cause cancer, so it is no longer used in construction.
Christophe Welch
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∙ 8y agoThe tiny fibers that makes up asbestos can get 'stuck' in the lungs. The body responds to the foreign fibers and causes a chronic inflammation and scarring. This is called fibrosis. The lungs can't expand as they should and breathing is affected.
It also can cause some of the cells to become cancer cells.
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Why isn't asbestos used much in the US today?
Asbestos has been found to cause cancer, so it is no longer used in construction.
What is asbestos used for in today's modern technologies?
Asbestos is not used in today's modern technologies. Currently, most of the Western and Developed world have banned all uses of Asbestos.
What is asbestos poisoning?
"Asbestos poisoning" is not a term that is used when discussing asbestos. It implies an adverse effect occurring soon after exposure to too much asbestos but that is not what happens. The adverse effects of asbestos exposures occur only many years after asbestos exposure began.
Is the asbestos that we used in the late 60's to make modeling clay for children the same asbestos that is now banned?
Asbestos is not banned, but its uses are limited. If you used asbestos in the 1960s then you used the thing that is still called asbestos.
Was asbestos used in refrigeraters?
Asbestos was used in the making of refridgerators and fridges
What colour of asbestos is used in building products?
There are a number of forms of asbestos that can be called by a colour, but can also be called by their actual mineralogical or trade name. White asbestos, which is more properly called Chrysotile, was widely used in building products and is the most commonly found type of asbestos in building materials today. However, other types have also been used. Brown asbestos, more widely known by its trade name, Amosite, is the second most commonly found asbestos type in building products.
What element is fire resistant it's material no longer used due to its carcinogenicity?
Asbestos (particularly blue asbestos)
What is asbestos abatement used for?
Asbestos Abatement is the term used when referring to the removal, renovation, repairing, or enclosing of asbestos or any such activity that involves renovating asbestos containing materials.
How much is a used Sony PSP worth to Game stop?
it isnt
Can asbestos rock be woven?
Yes, if asbestos rock is milled to separate it into fibers, those fibers can be woven pretty much the way cotton or linen can be woven. This used to be the way asbestos was used in electrical insulation, fire blankets, theatrical fire curtains, and a variety of other products. Because of the adverse health effects associated with breathing asbestos dust, these products are no longer made from asbestos.
Does insulation have asbestos?
Some, but not all, forms of insulation used to contain asbestos. Insulation applied new now does not contain asbestos.
What forms of insulation contain asbestos?
No insulation manufactured today contains asbestos. In previous years the types of insulation that contained asbestos included:calcium carbonate blocks and plaster used on boilers and hot pipescorrugated paper used on hot and cold water pipesfire retardant insulation blown onto steel beams to prevent early softening during a fire
