Meanings of chrysotile in English

It came back the next day positive for chrysotile white asbestos.

Seven-week-old rats were exposed, nose only, for 1 hour to chrysotile asbestos fibers.

Canada is the world's fifth largest exporter of chrysotile asbestos.

In samples weighing less than a gram, the lab said it found six chrysotile asbestos fibers.

Inhaled chrysotile asbestos fibers have been shown to deposit initially on the first alveolar duct bifurcations.

In Canada, companies mine chrysotile asbestos, which the asbestos industry says can be used safely under controlled conditions.

Mice were exposed to chrysotile asbestos.

Tremolite asbestos is not mined or used commercially but is a frequent contaminant of chrysotile asbestos, vermiculite, and talc.

We have not observed significant changes in chemical composition of chrysotile fibers up to 30 days post-deposition in the rat.

Nor have we observed translocation of chrysotile fibers from the "central" regions of the lung toward the subpleural regions.

In a statement to Reuters, the trade group said it believed that chrysotile was not commonly linked to talc used in cosmetics.

The three exposures to chrysotile caused a large increase in DNA synthesis in the epithelium of terminal bronchioles and more proximal airways.

We are studying the development of fibrogenic lesions in the lungs of rats exposed briefly to an aerosol of chrysotile asbestos fibers.

The written standard for that test acknowledges that it cannot detect most types of asbestos at low levels, nor one common type-chrysotile-at all.

The initial deposition and subsequent translocation of chrysotile asbestos were studied in the lungs of rats exposed for 1 h in inhalation chambers.

In the case of the smelter, exposed friable asbestos chrysotile has been found in a plaster coating on eight huge heat exchangers imported from China.