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crocidolite

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crocidolite

 or blue asbestos

Gray-blue to green, highly fibrous (asbestiform) form of the amphibole mineral riebeckite. It has higher tensile strength than chrysotile asbestos. The major commercial source is South Africa, where it occurs in Precambrian banded-iron formations; it is also found in Australia and Bolivia.
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Health Canada categorizes the different types of asbestos under two broad mineralogical groups: serpentine (chrysotile) and amphibole (tremolite, actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, crocidolite, etc).
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Iron Mobilization from crocidolite asbestos greatly enhances crocidolite-dependent formation of DNA single strand breaks in [phi]X174 RFI DNA.
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Wibel proposed that hawk's-eye forms in Earth's crust when quartz dissolved in hot water infiltrates spaces between crocidolite fibers and then slowly replaces the asbestos' molecules.
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