Asbestos and Mica

Asbestos and Mica Asbestos is no longer mined in the United States because of the severe health hazard, but it is still mined and processed in Canada. See previous editions of this handbook for process descriptions. 

Asbestos and mica roll crushers, hammer, and jet mills... 

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Asbestos, lead, zinc, nickel, and mica (if from deposits in United States) 22%... 

As one might expect there is an approximate correlation between the solid state structure and the physical properties of a particular silicate. For instance, cement contains discrete 8104 units and is soft and crumbly asbestos minerals contain double chains of 8104 units and are characteristically fibrous mica contains infinite layers of 8104 units, the weak bonding between the layers is easily broken, and micas show cleavage parallel to the layers and granite contains feldspars that are based on three-dimensional 8104 frameworks and are very hard. 

Recognizing the applicability of XRD to occupational health chemistry, Lennox and Leroux (1) suggested a number of chemical species which would be suitable for XRD analysis arsenic trioxide, beryllium oxide, mica, vanadium oxides, calcium fluoride in ceramic materials, as well as a number of organics such as DDT, lindane and chlordane. Unfortunately, the general application of XRD to the quantitation of industrial hygiene samples has not been realized and the majority of these analyses are restricted to free silica and to a lesser extent asbestos and talc. 

Muscovite and biotite have very similar compositions. Why is one "white mica" and the other "black mica" In the same vein, talc is white, chrysotile is while asbestos, crocidolite is blue asbestos and amosilc is a gray-bruwm asbestos. 

Wood powder, inorganic (glass, asbestos) and organic fibers, Al oxide, kaolin, asbestos, talc, mica, silicon oxide. 

Traditional reinforcement of concrete elements in the form of steel bars and prestressing cables or tendons is not studied here as it is mentioned in Section 2.3.1 and only dispersed fibre reinforcement is considered. Macrofibres are usually of 10-60 mm in length and 0.1-1.0 mm in the least dimension. Micro-fibres are of 10-30 pm in diameter and below 10 mm in length. There are several kinds of microfibres non-metallic, including asbestos, polypropylene, mica, wollastonite and xonotlite, and steel fibres. In the following chapter both these gronps of fibres are considered made with different materials (cf. ACT 544.1R-96). 

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