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Pages from a booklet titled The Asbestos Factbook. They open with an extract of a 1940 article on how chrysotile asbestos formed, then give a list of asbestos facts and history, production by country, lists of uses of raw asbestos and asbestos products, descriptions of fiber testing methods, and fiber grade tables for Canada, Arizona, California and South Africa. unreviewed
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- M. F. Smith (Research Chemist, Philip Carey Corporation (author of the extracted 1940 article on page 1 only))
- Series
- Union Carbide documents, UC-1386
- Rights
- A published article used as a document in asbestos litigation. Its copyright is not ours, so we describe it and link to it rather than host it.
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M. F. Smith. "The Origin of Asbestos." ASBESTOS, 1940.
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From M. F. Smith (Research Chemist, Philip Carey Corporation (author of the extracted 1940 article on page 1 only)).
- M. K. Smith (author)
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- Philip Carey Corporation (named)
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Pages on our site about what this document covers: Chrysotile: White Asbestos, the Most Common Type · Coalinga District.
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This is document UC-1386 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 22 pages.
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M. F. Smith (Research Chemist, Philip Carey Corporation (author of the extracted 1940 article on page 1 only)). “The Asbestos Factbook: Excerpted Pages on Origin, History, World Production, Uses and Fiber Grades.” Union Carbide documents, UC-1386. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/union-carbide-exhibits/uc-1386.
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