tremolite

How To Use tremolite In A Sentence

• Amosite, fibrous anthophyllite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and crocidolite are amphiboles, double-chain silicates, which observed microscopically look like sharp needles.
• Tremolite's long fibers are barbed like fishhooks.
• 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
• No ad hoc studies on the incidence of mesothelioma in areas of Italy characterized by the presence of tremolite in soil are available.
• Although this could be the result of a lower biopersistence of chrysotile compared with amphiboles, the environmental survey confirms that tremolite is the main type of asbestos involved.
• Iron was remobilized and limned specular hematite, along with epidote, actinolite/tremolite, and andradite.
• Asbestos, a fibrous hydrous silicate mineral, exists in 6 forms for industrial use: actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, and tremolite.
• Only three varieties of amphibole fibers will be discussed because: crocidolite and amosite were the only amphiboles with significant industrial uses in recent years; tremolite, although having essentially no industrial application, may be found as a contaminant in other fibers or in other industrial minerals (e.g., chrysotile and talc). Geology of asbestos
• In particular, the minerals concerned are: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite und actinolite, which are categorized on the basis of their chemical composition and fibrous structure as serpentine Asbestos 1. Introductory part: Asbestos - Deposits, uses, types, characteristics