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An illustrated book by Lilian Holmes Strack, published by Harper & Brothers in 1941. It retells old stories of asbestos as "magic flax": the wick of Athene's lamp, Charlemagne's tablecloth and a Quebec lumberjack's asbestos socks. It then describes the varieties of asbestos, mining in Swaziland, Arizona and Quebec, how the fiber is cobbed and milled, and uses from brake linings and theater curtains to asbestos-cement pipe. It calls asbestos a "protecting mineral". Some photographs are credited to Johns-Manville Corporation.
- Author
- Lilian Holmes Strack
- Published by
- Harper & Brothers
- Date
- 1941
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Lilian Holmes Strack. “Asbestos: A Magic Mineral.” 1941. Harper & Brothers. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/books/asbestos-a-magic-mineral-1941.
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