asbestify

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verb

To convert into asbestos or into a mixture containing asbestos.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbasbestify (third-person singular simple present asbestifies, present participle asbestifying, simple past and past participle asbestified)

present singular third person asbestifies · participle present asbestifying · participle past asbestified · past asbestified

  1. To convert into asbestos or into a mixture containing asbestos.

    The solid was stored at less than 0°C, and asbestified until mixing and use.

    1991, The Laryngoscope, page 51, column 2
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    The connecting rod bearings are brass backed and asbestified and have four bolts, insuring rigidity and providing a wider margin of safety.

    1918, Motor World for Jobbers, Dealers and Garagemen, volume 55, page 35, column 2

    No attempt has been made to strip the south contact of the peridotite between these two points, so that it is not known whether there is a continuous band of asbestified rock along the south contact of the peridotite.

    1919, Geological Survey of Canada, Memoirs, page 40

    In the fringe at the pegmatite contact the amphibole has been almost totally asbestified, but near offshoots the degree of its asbestification falls to 40 or 30%.[…]The totally asbestified holmquistite is accompanied by grains slightly affected by this process as well as by crystals showing latent fibrousness.

    1968, Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, page 109, column 2; 110, column 1

Origin

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