Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
asbestos .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.
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- noun Dated form of
asbestos .
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Examples
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Stones also differ in their weight or gravity: for instance, some of the asbestus kind are _lighter_ than water.
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There are several species of this mineral, which are distinguished by different names, according to the appearance of each, as fibrous asbestus, hard asbestus, and woody asbestus; it is the fibrous sort which is most noted for its uses in the arts.
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Pliny, the Roman naturalist, says he has seen napkins of asbestus taken soiled from the table after a feast, which were thrown into the fire, and by that means better scoured than if they had been washed with water.
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In the first case (31) are varieties of felspar; in the second case (32) are micaceous and other mineral substances; in the third case (33) are basaltic hornblende, tremolite, &c.; in the fourth case (34) are varieties of asbestus, which defies the action of fire; jeffersonite; jenite from the Elba,
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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In these cases more sulphate was always obtained from _a_ than from _b_; showing that it had been impossible to exclude saline bases (derived from the asbestus, the glass, or perhaps impurities originally in the acid,) and that they had helped in transferring the acid into _b_.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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On breaking the connexion with the battery, the portions of asbestus were lifted out, and the drops hanging at the ends allowed to fall each into its respective vessel.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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As the asbestus must have removed a little acid and alkali from the glasses, these quantities are by so much too small; and therefore it would appear that about a tenth of the acid originally in the vessel A had been transferred into B during the continuance of the electric action.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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That the sum of these is not 34 parts is principally due to the acid removed with the asbestus; but taking the mean of 15.65 parts, it would appear that a twenty-fourth part of the acid originally in the vessel _a_ had passed, through the influence of the electric current, from _a_ into _b_.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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I endeavoured to arrange certain experiments by which saline solutions should be decomposed against surfaces of water; and at first worked with the electric machine upon a piece of bibulous paper, or asbestus moistened in the solution, and in contact at its two extremities with pointed pieces of paper moistened in pure water, which served to carry the electric current to and from the solution in the middle piece.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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At the northern end of the ridge, just as the road commences its descent towards the Camu River, there is a little seam of an asbestus-like mineral, which has not yet been submitted to the examination of a competent mineralogist.
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