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ASBESTOS, a fibrous mineral from Gr. aafitaras, unquenchable, by transference, incombustible, in allusion to its power of resisting the action of fire. The word was applied by Dioscorides and other Greek authors to quicklime, but Pliny evidently used it in its ...

... drug highly esteemed among the ancients as laser cyrenaicum, 7MASAF-UD-DOWLAH— ASBESTOS and it supposed to have been a gummy exudation from Thapsis garganica), a gum-resin obtained principally from the root of Ferula fetida, and probably also from one or two ...

... ticularly in Tirol and Salzburg; quartz, felspar, heavy spar, rock-crystal, and asbestos are found in various parts; and among precious stones may be specially mentioned the Bohemian garnets. The total value of the mines and foundry products throughout Austria ...

... ills, a brass foundry, and manufactories of electrical railway supplies, boxes, asbestos coverings, enamel work and ice. The city's industrial history dates from 1820, whena small factory for the manufacture of scythes and sickles was set up. Natural gas, pipe ...

REFERENCES. — Fritz t'irkcl. Asbestos, its recurrence. Exploitation andlhts (Ottawa, 1905) ; I. H. Pratt and J. S. Dillrr in Annual Reports on Mineral Resources. U.S. (.ml. Survey: <".. P. Merrill. The Nonmetallic Minerals (New York, 1904); R. H. Jones. Asbest ...

... nstruction. On the Continent metal curtains are favoured. In England the double asbestos curtain is more common. The London County Council prefer a steel framing with asbestos wire- wove cloth on both faces, the intervening space being filled with slag wool, w ...