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EARTHS. TALCOSE. 3. Afbeftus. 



crystaIJi 



tnu'i 



FounJ in Nofwayj Cor/ica, and Tj'^o/, clothing the cryftals of 

 magnetic ir n rton<', and leaves a mountain green trace; 

 conram oxyde of iron 43, 3. filica 41, 15. alumina 6, 13. 

 roagnclia 39, 47. lime 1, 50. air and water 1,50, 



Green, ref- mbling aciciilar cryftals. 



Found in Saxony and Unj^ederiy oji the furface of rock cryftal. 



3. ASBESTUS. Confifting of carbonate of mag- 

 ntfia, filica, and generally alumina ; with tre- 

 quently oxyde of iron, rarely carbonate of lime: 

 dry to die touch, fibrous, foft, light and float- 

 ing, brittle in the fire, parafinc. 



A. IFith all the fibres parallel. 



Amiantuu Floating, with very fine feparabic, highly flexible fibres. 



Amiantus iibrous. Syfi.nat. xii. 3. /". 55. n. i* 



Amiant. Kir^.-anmitieraL \. p. 161. 



Mountain flax. SchmetJJer mineral, i. p, 203. 



Flexible Afbeftus, Thom/ons chetnidry^ 3. />. 594. 



Found with Serpentine in the C/r«/, Lapland^ ^ivedijht and many 

 European mountains, and likewile in Candia and China:, 

 colour filvery-white, greyifh, grecnifh-white, yellowifh, pale 

 flefo-colour or ochre yellow : feels a little grealy to the touch, 

 and eafily melts in a candle: contains lilica 64,0. carbonate 

 of magrefia 17, 2. carbonate of lime 12, 8. oxyde of iron 

 6, o. Bergman, 



maiuruu Harder, with the fibres more clofely cohering, tenacious 

 and feparable. 



Amiantus plumofus. Syft. uat. xii. 3. />. 59. «. 2. 



Found in S-iveden, and feparates more into a kind of down than 

 into diftinft fibres : abounds with iron, which gives it a 

 greenifli colour: in the hre it melts into a black drofs. Pro- 

 bably only a variety of the lait. 



fragilij. Shining like glafs, with feparable very fragile fibres. 



Amiantus fibrous. Syfi «u/. xii. 3. /. 55. » 3. 



Found in Siberia and Sixjeden, and is fold in the fliops under the 

 name of feathered Alum : colour grey or greenifh. Taken 

 internally it is highly deleterious, but has been fometimes 

 applied to ftimulate paralytic limbs. 



vulgaris. Without luftre, with rigid ftony cohering fibres in long 



bundles. 

 Amiantus immaturus. Sy[l. not. xii. 3. /'•55- «• 4' 

 Afbeftus. Kirvjan mineral, \. p, \ 59. 

 Common Altell, ^chmeijjer mineral, 1./, 204. 



