| George Perkins Merrill - Geology, Economic - 1904 - 518 pages
...qualities. The name amianthus was given it by the Greeks and Romans, the word signifying undefiled, and was applied in allusion to the fact that cloth...only a fibrous structure and more or less fire- and acid-proof properties. These four minerals are: First, true asbestos; second, anthophyllite; third,... | |
| George Perkins Merrill - Geology, Economic - 1910 - 530 pages
...qualities. The name amianthus was given it by the Greeks and Romans, the word signifying undefiled, and was applied in allusion to the fact that cloth...careless usage, and in part to ignorance, the name asbestos 1 is now applied to at least four distinct minerals, having in common only a fibrous structure... | |
| Henri Cordier, Gustaaf Schlegel, Édouard Chavannes, Paul Pelliot, Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak, Paul Demiéville - Asia - 1915 - 730 pages
...present loosely-defined significance, ia rather a commercial than a mineralogical term, and covers at least four distinct minerals, having in common...structure and more or less fire and acid proof properties. 3 It will be well to keep this in mind, aa it cannot be expected that the Greek, Roman, Arabic, and... | |
| United States National Museum - Anthropology - 1896 - 912 pages
...loosely-defined mineralógica! significance,2 it may be said that as commercially used the шипе now covers at least four distinct minerals, having in common...only a fibrous structure and more or less fire- and acid-proof properties. These minerals are(l) monocliuic amphibole (treiuolite), (li) serpentine (amianthus),... | |
| Mineralogy - 1897 - 460 pages
...1896).— As commercially used the name asbestos now covers at least four distinct minerals which have in common only a fibrous structure and more or less fire- and acid-proof properties; these are: — 1. Tremolite or asbestos proper. 2. Serpentine (amianthus). 3.... | |
| Mineralogy - 1897 - 412 pages
...1896).— As commercially used the name asbestos now covers at least four distinct minerals which have in common only a fibrous structure and more or less fire- and acid-proof properties; these are: — 1. Tremolite or asbestos proper. 2. Serpentine (amianthus). 8.... | |
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