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When asbestos is inhaled, fibers penetrate the breathing passages and irritate, fill, inflame, and scar lung tissue

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Asbestos cause most damage by being what?

breathed


Asbestos causes most damage by being?

breathed into the lungs.


How does asbestos cause the most damage and what body system does it affect?

breathed into the lungs.


What does Asbestos cause most damage by being?

breathed


What are the disadvantages of the asbestos?

The primary disadvantage of asbestos is that it can cause lung cancer and mesothelioma if the fibers are breathed in. Some suspect cancer can also result if the fibers are in the water you drink.


How much asbestos does it take for you to breathe in to kill you?

This question cannot be answered. Some people have breathed a lot of asbestos and never developed disease. Others breathed relatively small amounts and died form mesothelioma or lung cancer. In any case, the ill effects from asbestos are not immediate and you will not drop dead while breathing any amount of asbestos. The diseases develop 10 you 40 years after exposure begins.


Why would asbestos be a problem to humans?

Asbestos is a problem to humans because, if it is breathed in in sufficient quantities for a sufficient amount of time, the chances of getting mesotheleoma, lung cancer, and asbestosis are substantially increased.


What happens when carbon dioxide is breathed in by penguins?

Same thing that happens to you. Not much.


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.


How do you get exposed to asbestos?

Exposure to asbestos occurs when materials containing asbestos are disturbed in such a way that some of the asbestos becomes airborne and is available to be breathed in by people in the area. This can happen if certain types of asbestos containing materials are crumbled to dust by hand pressure, or if more rigid types are cut, sawed, drilled, sanded, broken or otherwise worked to create dust.The majority of people who are exposed to asbestos in the UK do so through the work environment. To see the effect of exposure at work and the conditions it can cause see the related link entitled "asbestos compensation claim".


How is asbestos pad used in the laboratory?

The asbestos pad is used in the laboratory to prevent the fibers from being released into the air where they can be breathed. The asbestos pads are usually manufactured to very strict standards.


What happens to the carbon dioxide by cellular respiration?

It is breathed out of the body by the lungs