Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An asbestos with fine, silky fibers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a type of
asbestos with long, soft, thinfibers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Three weeks later Saint-Germain arrived with the stone wrapped in a cloth of amianthus.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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Three weeks later Saint-Germain arrived with the stone wrapped in a cloth of amianthus.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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Three weeks later Saint-Germain arrived with the stone wrapped in a cloth of amianthus.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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It was wrapped in a cloth of amianthus, which he took off.
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It was wrapped in a cloth of amianthus, which he took off.
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It was wrapped in a cloth of amianthus, which he took off.
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Some of them, it was stated, who wore double gloves of amianthus, held a red-hot bar during four minutes.
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The incombustible pieces of dress which he uses for the body, arms, and legs, are formed out of strong cloth, which has been steeped in a solution of alum, while those for the head, hands, and feet, are made of cloth of asbestos or amianthus.
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The stockings and cap are single, but the gloves are made of double amianthus cloth, to enable the fireman to take into his hand burning or red-hot bodies.
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They were boiled for some hours in distilled water, and a piece of very white and transparent amianthus that had been treated in the same way was made then to connect together; they were filled with distilled water and exposed by means of two platina wires to a current of electricity, from one hundred and fifty pairs of plates of copper and zinc four inches square, made active by means of solution of alum.
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