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ISO 391:1982 Building and sanitary pipes in asbestos-cement [Withdrawn without replacement] ISO 392:1986 Asbestos-cement pipe fittings for building and sanitary purposes; ISO 393 Asbestos-cement products — Corrugated sheets and fittings for roofing and cladding
Asbestos cement competed with aluminum alloy, available in large quantities after WWII, and the reemergence of wood clapboard and vinyl siding in the mid to late 20th century. Asbestos cement is usually formed into flat or corrugated sheets or into pipes, but can be molded into any shape that can be formed using wet cement.
Orangeburg pipe (also known as "fiber conduit", "bituminous fiber pipe" or "Bermico" or "sand pipe") is bituminized fiber pipe used in the United States. It is made from layers of ground wood pulp fibers and asbestos fibres compressed with and bound by a water resistant adhesive then impregnated with liquefied coal tar pitch .
Transite originated as a brand that Johns Manville, an American company, created in 1929 for a line of asbestos-cement products, including boards and pipes. [1] In time it became a generic term for other companies' similar asbestos-cement products, and later an even more generic term for a hard, fireproof composite material , fibre cement ...
ISO 2785:1986 Directives for selection of asbestos-cement pipes subject to external loads with or without internal pressure [Withdrawn without replacement] ISO 2786 Modular co-ordination — Internal wood doorsets — Principal dimensions [Rejected draft] ISO 2787:1984 Rotary and percussive pneumatic tools — Performance tests
BS 2777 Specification for asbestos-cement cisterns; BS 2979 Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek Letters; BS 3262 Hot-applied thermoplastic road marking materials; BS 3506 for unplasticized PVC pipe for industrial uses; BS 3621 Thief resistant lock assembly. Key egress. BS 3943 Specification for plastics waste traps
Residential building materials containing asbestos include a variety of products, such as: stipple used in textured walls and ceilings; drywall joint filler compound; asbestos contaminated vermiculite, vinyl floor tile; vinyl sheet flooring; window putty; mastic; cement board; asbestos cement pipes and flues; furnace tape; and stucco.
Asbestos (/ æ s ˈ b ɛ s t ə s, æ z-,-t ɒ s / ass-BES-təs, az-, -toss) [1] is a group of naturally occurring, toxic, carcinogenic and fibrous silicate minerals.There are six types, all of which are composed of long and thin fibrous crystals, each fibre (particulate with length substantially greater than width) [2] being composed of many microscopic "fibrils" that can be released into ...