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Slag Wool

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slag wool [′slag ‚wu̇l]
(materials)

slag wool
A type of mineral wool made by forcing steam through molten slag; used as thermal insulation.

Slag Wool 

a material for thermal insulation, a type of mineral wool manufactured from melts of metallurgical slags by converting them into glasslike fibers. It is used mainly in the form of finished sheets, mats, and shells made with a synthetic binder.



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Joseph was employed for many years as a slag wool blower at Wilton Pease Works.
facilities used almost 6 million tons of recycled glass and nearly 335,000 tons of slag to produce fiberglass and slag wool insulation products.
On page 1454, Table 5 (under "Respirable dusts and fibers"), glass wool, rock wool, and slag wool fireproofing should not have appeared in the listing of Group 2B human carcinogens because they were downgraded to Group 3 in the latest monograph to address these substances (IARC 2002a); special purpose glass fibers such as E-glass and "475" glass fibers are not used in the "Reinforced plastic industry" but rather in "High-efficiency air filtration media and battery separator media" (IARC 2002a).
 
 
 
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