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Definition of Asbestus

1. n. A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

Definition of Asbestus

1. Noun. (dated form of asbestos) ¹

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Definition of Asbestus

1. asbestos [n -ES] - See also: asbestos

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asbestus

Literary usage of Asbestus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"asbestus, the name by which it is generally known, is a Greek word, signifying endless, ... asbestus is, then, a mineral occurring in a fibrous form, ..."

2. Catalogue of Section One of the Museum of the Geological Survey, Embracing by George Christian Hoffmann (1893)
"Cambrian, C. (3636,) with magnetite.—Boston asbestus Packing Company's mine, lot 27, range V. of Thetford, Megantic county, Q.—Coll., ..."

3. A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the by ROBERT. JAMESON (1820)
"It is distinguished from Common asbestus by its higher lustre, its fibres being ... Common asbestus *, Gemeiner Asbest, Werner. asbestus immaturus, Wall tip ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1842)
"On the Composition of the asbestus of ... this variety of asbestus, which is characterized by the length of its fibres and by its white colour. ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"In the eighth century Charlemagne is said to have had an asbestus table-cloth, ... The asbestus of commerce is the product of two widely separated ..."

6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1842)
"On the Composition of the asbestus of ... an analysis of this variety of asbestus, which is characterized by the length of its fibres and by its white ..."

7. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1883)
"... asbestus rock, resembling " Mountain Leather" O forms important masses, enclosing small concretionary pellets of asbestus, the centres of which contain ..."

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