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Asbestiform is a crystal habit. It describes a mineral that grows in a fibrous aggregate of high tensile strength, flexible, long, and thin crystals that readily separate.[1] The most common asbestiform mineral is chrysotile, commonly called "white asbestos", a magnesium phyllosilicate part of the serpentine group. Other asbestiform minerals include riebeckite, an amphibole whose fibrous form is known as crocidolite or "blue asbestos", and brown asbestos, a cummingtonite-grunerite solid solution series.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency explains that, "In general, exposure may occur only when the asbestos-containing material is disturbed or damaged in some way to release particles and fibers into the air."[2]

"Mountain leather" is an old-fashioned term for flexible, sheet-like natural formations of asbestiform minerals which resemble leather. Asbestos-containing minerals known to form mountain leather include: actinolite, palygorskite, saponite, sepiolite, tremolite, and zeolite.[3]

  1. ^ Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects, 2006, Asbestos: Selected Cancers, National Academies Press, ISBN 978-0309101691
  2. ^ "More Information on Asbestos Removal". Total Asbestos Removal Brisbane. 2019-07-21. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  3. ^ "Mountain Leather". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2021-09-20.

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Cummingtonite

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lower ferric iron and aluminium than anthophyllite. Amosite is a rare asbestiform variety of grunerite that was mined as asbestos only in the eastern part...

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Riebeckite

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granite pegmatites and schist. It occurs in banded iron formations as the asbestiform variety crocidolite (blue asbestos). It occurs in association with aegirine...

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Chrysotile

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serpentine subgroup of phyllosilicates; as such, it is distinct from other asbestiform minerals in the amphibole group. Its idealized chemical formula is Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4...

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Grunerite

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(1809–1883), the Swiss-French chemist who first analysed it. Amosite is a rare asbestiform variety of grunerite that was mined as asbestos predominantly in the...

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the garnet group; silky which is common in fibrous minerals such as asbestiform chrysotile. The diaphaneity of a mineral describes the ability of light...

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Actinolite

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ions can be freely exchanged in the crystal structure. Like tremolite, asbestiform actinolite is regulated as asbestos. Actinolite is commonly found in...

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Serpentine subgroup

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several purposes, such as railway ballasts, building materials, and the asbestiform types find use as thermal and electrical insulation (chrysotile asbestos)...

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Amphibolite

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Color Brown, yellow, red, or green Crystal habit Prismatic; acicular or asbestiform Twinning Simple or multiple parallel to {100} Cleavage Perfect Fracture...

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Balangeroite

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California Proposition 65 list of chemicals

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Gogebic Range

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Jimthompsonite

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