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asbestos is formed over Millenia as part of the planets natural process, it is a formation of a number of chemicals forced through the earth through volcanic action. when cooled it forms into seams of fibrous asbestos in the fisures of rocks.

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Asbestos fibres are formed if tiny holes formed by a gas in a hard sediment are filled with silicates under high pressure.

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