Cancer and Healthy

Asbestos is dubbed as a miracle mineral when people discovered her property to withstand heat. The use of asbestos was on a larger scale during the industrial revolution when countries began to seek growth through infrastructure.

Unfortunately, although asbestos is found to be useful in the construction and even the clothing was discovered too dangerous for the health - even the early Greeks recognized asbestos-related diseases in the slaves who handled the minerals in that period.

The United States and Canada started using asbestos for insulation in the 1860s. The first commercial asbestos mine was built in 1879 in Quebec. Soon, asbestos were used in so many other household applications such as the construction:

Fire-resistant coatings
Concrete --
Bricks -
-Pipes
Fireplace-cement
Heat-, fire-and acid-resistant gaskets
Pipe-isolations
Ceiling-isolations
Fire-resistant plasterboard, flooring
-Roofing
Lawn furniture

Asbestos had become a very valuable commodity in a wide range of applications where the construction, but there are other applications where asbestos is used: brake pads and shoes, clutch plates, stage curtains, fire blankets, interior fire doors, etc. .

The dangers of the continuous use of asbestos has finally manifested when about 100,000 people in the United States fell sick and died as a result of asbestos-related disease. Many of these victims were exposed to asbestos in their jobs, such as shipbuilding, for example. During the Second World War, tons and tons of asbestos were used in the ship and immediately thereafter, thousands of workers began to die of mesothelioma and asbestosis as a result of prolonged exposure to the minerals.

Nowadays, many people still victims of the still greater than the exposure to asbestos.