Winick says the cause was not HIV-related, but a particular kind of cancer caused by asbestos.
Because the important point is what those rulings did not do: create a market for asbestos liability insurance.
It was sealed in 2009 for asbestos contamination and its current status remains unclear.
“They've had an 800 number up for a year, like they're plaintiffs lawyers in an asbestos case,” he scoffed.
asbestos brake lining was produced here starting in 1915, and a fabric manufacturer took over in 1937.
Then cover the vents with asbestos or a wet cloth as already described.
It is in operations such as this that the asbestos box will be found of great use.
This liability to breakage is reduced, but not eliminated, by the asbestos annealing.
A suitable bit of wood may be substituted for the asbestos on occasion.
Cars are now being built of steel, and of combinations of metal with asbestos.
1650s, earlier albeston, abestus (c.1100), name of a fabulous stone, which, set afire, could not be extinguished; from Old French abeste, abestos, from Latin asbestos "quicklime" (which "burns" when cold water is poured on it), from Greek asbestos, literally "inextinguishable," from a- "not" (see a- (3)) + sbestos, verbal adjective from sbennynai "to quench," from PIE root *(s)gwes- "to quench, extinguish" (cf. Lithuanian gestu "to go out," Old Church Slavonic gaso, Hittite kishtari "is being put out").
The Greek word was used by Dioscorides as a noun meaning "quicklime." "Erroneously applied by Pliny to an incombustible fibre, which he believed to be vegetable, but which was really the amiantos of the Greeks" [OED]. Meaning "mineral capable of being woven into incombustible fabric" is from c.1600 in English; earlier this was called amiant (early 15c.), from Latin amiantus, from Greek amiantos, literally "undefiled" (so called because it showed no mark or stain when thrown into fire). Supposed in the Middle Ages to be salamanders' wool. Prester John, the Emperor of India, and Pope Alexander III were said to have had robes or tunics made of it.
asbestos as·bes·tos or as·bes·tus (ās-běs'təs, āz-)
n.
Either of two incombustible, chemical-resistant, fibrous mineral forms of impure magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, brake linings, and chemical filters. adj.
Of, made of, or containing one or the other of these two mineral forms.
