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An AIA/NA booklet describing asbestos, its three commercial varieties, its properties, the products that contain it, and U.S. consumption and sales. It states that chrysotile accounts for 97 percent of U.S. use and that more than 90 percent of asbestos is locked into finished products. Appendices give chemical formulas, 1971 tonnage and sales by product line. No date is printed; the text cites 1972 consumption and 1971 detailed figures.
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- Asbestos Information Association/North America
- Series
- Asbestos Information Association documents, AIA-117
- Number
- Bates A 17355 to A 17358
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 21015 · asbestosclaims.law/library/21015
- Rights
- A document from asbestos litigation, published for research and historical study.
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This is document AIA-117 of the Asbestos Information Association documents, documents used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits, 5 pages. Production numbers A 17355 to A 17358.
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“Asbestos Information Association/North America, What Asbestos Is: How and Where It Is Used (booklet, undated).” Asbestos Information Association documents, AIA-117, Bates A 17355 to A 17358. Asbestos Information Association/North America. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 21015. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/21015.
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