Asbestos (disambiguation)
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Asbestos may refer to:
  • Asbestos
    Asbestos
    Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals used commercially for their desirable physical properties. They all have in common their eponymous, asbestiform habit: long, thin fibrous crystals...

    , the mineral
  • Asbestos-Ceramic
    Asbestos-Ceramic
    Asbestos-ceramic refers to types of pottery manufactured with asbestos and clay with adiabatic behaviour in Finland, Karelia and Northern-Scandinavia...

  • Asbestos Convention, 1986
    Asbestos Convention, 1986
    Asbestos Convention, 1986 is an International Labour Organization Convention.It was established in 1986, with the preamble stating:Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to safety in the use of asbestos,...- Ratifications :...

  • Asbestos fibers
    Asbestos fibers
    Asbestos fibers are released from asbestos containing materials . Friable asbestos containing materials release fibers more readily than encapsulated asbestos containing materials.- Determining airborne asbestos fiber levels :...

  • Asbestos Strike
    Asbestos Strike
    The Asbestos Strike of 1949, based in and around Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, was a four-month labour dispute by the asbestos miners. It has traditionally been portrayed as a turning point in Quebec history that helped lead to the Quiet Revolution...

    , a 1949 asbestos mine strike in Canada

Companies
  • Asbestos Corporation Limited
  • Australian Blue Asbestos
    Australian Blue Asbestos
    Australian Blue Asbestos Pty. Ltd. was a company founded by Lang Hancock, operated between the years responsible for the mining, bagging and distribution of blue asbestos or crocidolite, in Wittenoom, in northern Western Australia. The operation, purchased in 1943 by CSR Limited, was operated as...



Places
  • Asbestos, Quebec
    Asbestos, Quebec
    -Communities:*Asbestos*Trois-Lacs-External links:***...

  • Asbestos Range National Park, Tasmania, Australia, is now the Narawntapu National Park
    Narawntapu National Park
    Narawntapu is a national park in Tasmania, Australia. It lies on Tasmania's north coast, adjoining Bass Strait, between Port Sorell in the west and the mouth of the Tamar River in the east...

  • Port Asbestos (fictional)


Other
  • Asbestosdeath
    Asbestosdeath
    Asbestosdeath was an American sludge/doom metal band from San Jose, California, and the precursor to the highly influential Sleep.-History:Asbestosdeath started life as trio consisting of Al Cisneros on bass, Chris Hakius on drums, and Tom Choi on guitar. Matt Pike later joined as a second guitarist...

    , an American punk/metal band from San Jose, California
  • Asbestos Records
    Asbestos Records
    Asbestos Records in an independent record label in Stratford, CT founded in 1996 by Matt Flood, and Dave Leone....

    , a record label
  • Asbestos, frontman for Fort Collins, Colorado
    Colorado
    Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

     industrial band Plasmacrash
  • HMCS Asbestos (K358)
    HMCS Asbestos (K358)
    HMCS Asbestos was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy.Asbestos followed the design of the modified Flower-class corvettes and was ordered from Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co.. She was laid down on 20 July 1943 and launched on 22 November 1943...

  • AsbestOS, is a bootloader to run Linux
    Linux
    Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

     in a PS3 which does not support OtherOS.
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