(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three subcohorts were defined: 3212 men whose only exposure to asbestos was to amosite; 3430 exposed to crocidolite; and 675 to both amphiboles.
(2) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
(3) Using recently published data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results project, coupled with the previously published estimates, projected asbestos related malignant mesothelioma mortality in the United States for the period 1985-2009 was estimated to be 21,500.
(4) Crocidolite asbestos fibers are rapidly ingested in large amounts by Tetrahymena.
(5) The benign localized mesothelioma is usually considered in the differential diagnosis of pleural tumors, but it is not related to asbestos exposure.
(6) This study examined different markers of lung immunologic and inflammatory responses to previous asbestos exposure.
(7) The role of alveolar macrophage (AM)-derived secretory products in fibroblast stimulation after the instillation of long and short asbestos to rat lungs is now investigated.
(8) Attention to the hazards of asbestos has aroused concern among many healthy persons who have been exposed at some time to one of the world's most versatile materials.
(9) The high sites' density with basic character, evidenced by use of various probe molecules, is very similar for the two asbestos types (chrysotile and crocidolite) and on the same order as the density encountered in some catalysts.
(10) Categorization of the pattern of physiologic abnormalities in patients with asbestos-associated disease may be important for clinical, compensation, and epidemiologic reasons.
(11) These results have been compared with asbestos samples obtained from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
(12) Results indicated that the percentage of S cells was similar in asbestos-treated and untreated cultures.
(13) The various neoplasms attributed to asbestos in the next decades posed an additional question: What influence did the fibrous shape of the particles have on carcinogenic potential?
(14) In 1964 it was first reported that asbestos workers had a higher risk of gastrointestinal cancer.
(15) There is no doubt that the presence of asbestos in the coal mine is one of the pathogenic factors of pneumoconiosis.
(16) We examined whether exposure of macrophages to crocidolite asbestos induced lipid peroxidation as measured by the thiobarbituric acid assay.
(17) The findings suggest widespread exposure to asbestos dust; occupational histories appeared to indicate the source of exposure in some but not all patients.
(18) The present standard method for evaluating asbestos fiber concentrations in workroom air excludes fibers less than 5 micron long even though it has been shown that small fiber concentrations dominate in a dust cloud.
(19) Among patients with mesothelioma a history of asbestos exposure was obtained in 44%, a history of no exposure in 22% and no specific mention of asbestos in 34%.
(20) Previous suggestions for converting TEM measurements to PCM equivalents lack generality because they fail to take into account the size distribution of the asbestos particles and the expectation that fiber-size distributions in current nonoccupational environments could differ from the workplaces of the past on which the risk equations are based.
Fireproof
Definition:
(a.) Proof against fire; incombustible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Testing conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) confirmed that the petroleum-like odor was due to the fireproofing.
(2) I improved my security, had my front door steel reinforced, a fireproof letterbox put in.
(3) Hotel robberies have become virtually uncontrollable, and there have been some spectacular recent cases in which thieves have broken into hotel vaults.” And oh, yes: visitors should try “to avoid buildings that are not completely fireproof” and “to obtain a room that is close by the fire stairs”.
(4) If your house was on fire would you want to be rescued (in anything other than a sexual fantasy) by a woman in nine-inch high silver platforms, sparkly blue trousers and a PVC skin-tight red jacket vaguely resembling something fireproof?
(5) John Belles built a concrete dome and turned it into a house 15 years ago because the manufacturers told him it was fireproof.
(6) After examining Marie Curie House, an identical block adjoining Lakanal – where similar rennovations took place and where the equivalent ceiling has now been removed – Webb believes the work compromised fireproofing between flats and the corridor.
(7) Video sales may be generally ailing, but in this sector, they're booming (Fireproof, produced by Nixon, racked up 90,000 DVD sales in Brazil alone; the accompanying book sold 120,000).
(8) Regarding non-occupational exposures to asbestos, 13 cases of mesothelioma were found in women who had washed the work clothes of their relatives at home; we also found other domestic uses of asbestos which were rarely or never discussed previously in the literature: six cases might be explained by the installation of fireproof or non-conductive materials in the domestic environment.
(9) The papers The Times has an exclusive on Grenfell Tower and claims leaked emails show that fireproof cladding was allegedly downgraded to save about £300,000 in refurbishment costs.
(10) A main concern is modifications to buildings, some by residents, for example right-to-buy flat owners who replace the original fireproof doors to their flats with combustible replacements.
(11) This paper focuses on the extensive use of asbestos as a fireproofing and insulating material in shipbuilding in the 1940s, when World War II industrial expansion brought about a hitherto unprecedented rise in the amount of asbestos utilized.
(12) FIREPROOF BOSSES "Paul Ince was sacked by Blackburn after failing to win for 11 matches," began Lars Ellensohn in 2009 .
(13) An investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Branch (OSHA) of the Alaska Department of Labor found no major health problems and concluded that fireproofing at the school may have caused a petroleum-like odor.
(14) Hopefully fireproof, as Drogon has been known to get overexcited when the Targaryens get into the final third.
(15) Chloroform has the great advantage of being fireproof, but proper fume hoods should be used.
(16) Installing cable above a suspended ceiling in the presence of asbestos-containing fireproofing is an example of an activity that may disturb in-place asbestos and associated dust and debris.
(17) But once he'd been passed Cable's quasi-judicial duty to rule on the bid, Hunt had doggedly set prejudice aside to establish a fireproof process: all his experts' advice would be published and he'd have to explain whenever he didn't take it.
(18) FIREPROOF BOSSES “Paul Ince was sacked after failing to win for 11 matches,” begins Lars Ellensohn.
(19) In Fireproof, our hero saves his marriage by means of the 40-day programme recommended to him by his born-again father.
(20) What developed was Concrete Canvas, a fabric that hardens when sprayed with water, creating a waterproof and fireproof concrete layer.