gorgeousgeology: Unique Minerals Week: Asbestos Asbestos is…
Unique Minerals Week: Asbestos
Asbestos is not a manmade product like many think. It is one of most terrifying minerals on the planet. Where other minerals act as toxins through their chemistry and sicken victims of accidental poisoning.
Asbestos conducts full scale mechanical sabotage on the human lung. Asbestos is a fully natural category of minerals composed of silica the most abundant of Earth’s hard elements, iron, sodium and oxygen.
Asbestos deposits consist of aggregates of thousands of tiny, fibrous crystals that can become airborne and lodged in the human lung, these can be seen in image 3.
Carcinogenic effects occur through persistent irritation of the lung tissues, leading to scarring.
Asbestos formations can also be uncovered among any set of silica rocks, warranting caution when exploring. Strangely, natural weathering leads to natural distribution of asbestos in Earth’s atmosphere, as a result, many humans carry some asbestos fibres in their lungs.