amphibole

How To Use amphibole In A Sentence

• Amosite, fibrous anthophyllite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and crocidolite are amphiboles, double-chain silicates, which observed microscopically look like sharp needles.
• These primarily consisted of amosite and crocidolite, both commercial amphiboles.
• The inhalation of amphibole asbestos is now widely recognized as being highly dangerous to human health.
• Most amphibole asbestos was mined as crocidolite and amosite from Precambrian banded ironstones in South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Western Australia.
• The presence of several amphibole minerals, such as tremolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, was confirmed.
• The trend observed of increasing tensile strength of amphiboles from tremolite, to amosite, to crocidolite is directly related to the iron content of these fibers. Geology of asbestos
• We are ignorant of the extent of the cavities which subterranean fires and volcanic agitations may have produced in the bowels of the earth in those primitive rocks, which, containing considerable quantities of amphibole, mica, garnet, magnetic iron-stone, and red schorl (titanite), appear to be anterior to granite. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• Other common minor constituents of eclogite include kyanite, orthopyroxene, rutile, amphibole, pyrite, and white mica.
• Late phases are mainly calcic amphiboles of magnesio-hornblende composition and plagioclases with very low anorthite contents.
• Dacite and granodiorite contain slightly more biotite and amphibole minerals than granite and rhyolite. Igneous rock