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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Asbestos, Its production and use
Robert H. Jones
83 pages~1 hr 39 min read14 chapters$4.99
A rock you can weave into cloth once seemed a marvel. Robert Jones's account explains asbestos: how it is mined, chiefly from the great Canadian deposits, and the many uses to which the fireproof mineral was put. A window on an industry at its confident dawn. Discover the stone that spun into thread.
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Inside this book
14 chapters
- 1ASBESTOS
- 2ITS PRODUCTION AND USE
- 3WITH
- 4SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ASBESTOS MINES OF CANADA
- 5LONDON: CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND SON 7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL 1888
- 6PREFACE.
- 7CONTENTS.
- 8ASBESTOS.
- 9FOOTNOTES:
- 10CANADIAN MINING FOR ASBESTOS.
- 11FOOTNOTES:
- 12USES TO WHICH ASBESTOS IS APPLIED.
- 13FOOTNOTE:
- 14INDEX.
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