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Asbestiform is a
crystal habit. It
describes a
mineral that
grows in a
fibrous aggregate of high
tensile strength, flexible, long, and thin
crystals that...
- "Talc (containing
asbestiform fibers)".
United States Department of the Interior:
Selected Silicate Minerals and
Their Asbestiform Varieties by W. J....
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Ametrine (variety of quartz)
Ammolite (organic; also a gemstone)
Amosite (
asbestiform grunerite)
Antozonite (variety of fluorite)
Anyolite (metamorphic rock...
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serpentine subgroup of phyllosilicates; as such, it is
distinct from
other asbestiform minerals in the
amphibole group. Its
idealized chemical formula is Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4...
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granite pegmatites and schist. It
occurs in
banded iron
formations as the
asbestiform variety crocidolite (blue asbestos). It
occurs in ****ociation with aegirine...
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lower ferric iron and
aluminium than anthophyllite.
Amosite is a rare
asbestiform variety of
grunerite that was
mined as
asbestos only in the
eastern part...
- the
garnet group;
silky which is
common in
fibrous minerals such as
asbestiform chrysotile. The
diaphaneity of a
mineral describes the
ability of light...
- ions can be
freely exchanged in the
crystal structure. Like tremolite,
asbestiform actinolite is
regulated as asbestos.
Actinolite is
commonly found in...
- (1809–1883), the Swiss-French
chemist who
first analysed it.
Amosite is a rare
asbestiform variety of
grunerite that was
mined as
asbestos predominantly in the...
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contain anthophyllite, a Mg-rich
amphibole Ultramafic rocks; tremolite,
asbestiform amphibole, talc, pyroxene, wollastonite,
prograde metamorphic olivine...
