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Asbestos Reinforcements and Fillers: Review of Asbestos Minerals and Uses in Plastics (1969)

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A 1969 technical paper on the use of asbestos as a reinforcement and filler in plastics. It describes chrysotile and the amphibole asbestos minerals, and their use in thermoplastics and thermosets. It cites New Idria, California short-fiber chrysotile. Pages 9-17 hold a reference list, a property table, a structure figure and electron micrographs.

Published by
Umetco Minerals Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York (named in page headers; the page 1 and 2 images show no letterhead)
Series
Union Carbide documents, UC-1533
Date
April 18, 1969
Number
Bates A10927 to A10928
Library no.
ACL Doc 16635 · asbestosclaims.law/library/16635
Rights
A document from asbestos litigation, published for research and historical study.

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What the document holds

  • Pages 1-8: Text of 'Asbestos Reinforcements and Fillers': asbestos minerals, thermoplastics and thermosets
  • Page 9: Numbered list of literature references
  • Pages 10-11: Tables of comparative properties of asbestos minerals and of reinforced thermoplastics (OCR garbled)
  • Pages 12-13: Figures: chrysotile structure diagram and lattice-image figures from Acta Crystallographica
  • Pages 14-17: Electron micrograph figures, including dry-process and wet-processed asbestos fibers

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Pages on our site about what this document covers: California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Chrysotile: White Asbestos, the Most Common Type · New Idria · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

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This is document UC-1533 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 17 pages. Production numbers A10927 to A10928.

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“Asbestos Reinforcements and Fillers: Review of Asbestos Minerals and Uses in Plastics.” April 18, 1969. Union Carbide documents, UC-1533, Bates A10927 to A10928. Umetco Minerals Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York (named in page headers; the page 1 and 2 images show no letterhead). AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 16635. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/16635.

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