Could carbon fiber inflict the same kind of damage on the human body as asbestos? That’s the question which [Nathan] found himself struggling with after taking a look at carbon fiber-reinforc… ...

Asbestos was used in a variety of building materials in some homes built before 1990. (The couple and the contractor now appear in the blueprint; they are surrounded on all sides by the sketch images ...

Even 15 miles from the mine, but near a railway siding where trains took on vermiculite, tree bark holds up to 19 million fibers per gram, his team reports in the Aug. 15 issue of Science of the ...

Corrugated asbestos must not be sawed, cut, drilled, ground up or broken. As long as it's not touched, there is no danger of fibers being released into the air. But even cleaning is taboo.

The currently used analytical methods for identification, characterization and quantitation of asbestos fiber in consumer talcum products include polarized light microscopy, x-ray diffraction analysis ...

There are also portable real-time fiber detectors that can be used on-site, although they’re unable to differentiate between asbestos and other, less harmful fibrous materials.