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crocidolite

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crocidolite /cro·cid·o·lite/ (kro-sid´o-līt) an amphibole type of asbestos that causes asbestosis as well as mesotheliomas and other cancers.
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And in 2006, Australian researchers looked at former workers and residents exposed to crocidolite (blue asbestos) in Western Australia.
Vitamin a - Possible New Drug for Mesothelioma by Bello Kamorudeen / Health, general community
al, linked asbestos with MME at a crocidolite mining area in South Africa in 1960 (2).
Mesothelioma review by Montjoy, Carol; Parker, John; Petsonk, Lee; Teba, Luis; Fallon, Kenneth / West Virginia Medical Journal
Asbestos related diseases from environmental exposure to crocidolite in Da-yao, China.
ATSDR's experience with community exposure to "naturally occurring ... by Dyken, Jill J.; Wheeler, John S. / Journal of Environmental Health
 
 
 
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