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The Harmful Asbestos

October 17th, 2009

Asbestos is a group of mineral metamorphosis with fiber. The name is come from its function to be resistant to flame. Therefore, asbestos is used for many applications. It is actually the very useful chemical hazard until human inhale it. The inhalation of certain asbestos fiber can caused many diseases including cancer. Mostly known as Mesothelioma. It is proofed that Asbestos is the number one caused for Mesothelioma. It is definitely a very dangerous chemical essence that will make your lung suffer whenever inhale it. For that reason, the using of Asbestos no longer permitted in many countries. And as a replacement for Asbestos, they use Fiberglass instead. It is actually the most suitable content that has similar function as Asbestos for heat insulation and electricity high temperature tools.

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Asbestos is no longer used nowadays for it brought nothing but the dangerous effect. Many people worked at the construction while installing Asbestos got infected by Asbestos effect and find them selves suffering for great illness including cancer. Cancer is just one illness that is very serious and has the highest risk for death. Asbestos is the trigger for Mesothelioma. People with Mesothelioma are very hard to cure. In fact it can affect other people who live with him/her. Therefore, we were told to wash our clothes separately from the clothes of our family member who had Mesothelioma since we will get infected by it. It is actually not proven, but I believe we should just follow it.

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