asbestos

English

Asbestos fibers.

From Old French abestos, from Latin asbestos, itself from Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unquenchable, inextinguishable”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + σβέννυμι (sbénnumi, “I quench, quell”).

asbestos (countable and uncountable, plural asbestoses)

(mineralogy) Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters, suits, fireman's gloves, etc.
All types of asbestos are potentially carcinogenic when inhaled.

Asbestos insulation was once ubiquitous.
(mineralogy) Any of asbestos-like forms of several minerals, asbestiforms

(forms of magnesium silicate): serpentine: parachrysotile, amianthus, common asbestos, chrysotile
- amphibole: blue asbestos, crocidolite, riebeckite; amosite, brown asbestos; crocidolite; tremolite/tremolite asbestos; actinolite/actinolite asbestos; anthophyllite/anthophyllite asbestos
(asbestiform): richterite, winchite

any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate

Lithuanian: asbestas m
Maori: tēpoko
Mongolian: асбест (asbest)
Navajo: doołikoní
Norwegian:
Bokmål: asbest m

Nynorsk: asbest m
Polish: azbest (pl) m, azbestowy (pl) m (attributive)
Portuguese: asbesto m, amianto (pt) m
Romanian: azbest (ro) m
Russian: асбе́ст (ru) m (asbést), асбе́стовый (ru) (asbéstovyj) (attributive)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀збест m, а̀збестнӣ (attributive)

Roman: àzbest (sh) m, àzbestnī (sh) (attributive)
Slovak: azbest (sk) m
Slovene: azbest (sl) m
Spanish: asbesto (es) m, amianto m
Swedish: asbest (sv)
Tagalog: asbesto
Tamil: கல்நார் (ta) (kalnār)
Thai: แร่ใยหิน (rɛ̂ɛ-yai-hǐn)
Tibetan: རྡོ་རྒྱུད (rdo rgyud)
Turkish: asbest (tr)
Vietnamese: miăng, amiăng

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