Libby vermiculite is contaminated with an especially toxic form of naturally-occurring asbestos called tremolite-actinolite asbestiform mineral fibers.    From Wordnik.com.  [All American Patriots: US politics, domestic and world news, science, environment, energy and technology - Dispatches from the depths of U.S. government] Reference

The tremolite occurs in white crystals, about a quarter inch in width and from a half to three inches in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

In India a total of 1,293 tons of chrysotile, 31,728 tons of tremolite and 275 tons of crocidolite were processed in the period between April.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Introduction] Reference

It doesn't take a sleuth to detect danger in these kits -- the fingerprinting dust contains tremolite, one of the most lethal forms of asbestos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

The trend observed of increasing tensile strength of amphiboles from tremolite, to amosite, to crocidolite is directly related to the iron content of these fibers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geology of asbestos] Reference

The group published its findings and documented the appearance of small amounts of tremolite, a type of asbestos fiber, through testing by three separate laboratories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bills Give Labs Job] Reference

Tightly bound chrysolite, amphibole and tremolite fibres are completely safe and their manufacture and export strictly controlled, in theory, under the Hazardous Products and Environmental Protection Acts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take a position, lose a candidate - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca] Reference

The groups which are typically developed comprise (1) slates, black schists and phyllites with thin black limestone, sometimes containing tremolite, (2) the main limestone, (3) the quartzite (Schiehallion).    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

In particular, the minerals concerned are: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite und actinolite, which are categorized on the basis of their chemical composition and fibrous structure as serpentine Asbestos.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Introductory part: Asbestos - Deposits, uses, types, characteristics] Reference

Between it and its walk of gneiss occur veins of the minerals so characteristic of the locality, and for which it has become famous -- serpentine, asbestos, phlozopite, gurhofite pyrites, biotite, aragonite, dolomite, tremolite, and possibly others in lesser quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

Only three varieties of amphibole fibers will be discussed because: crocidolite and amosite were the only amphiboles with significant industrial uses in recent years; tremolite, although having essentially no industrial application, may be found as a contaminant in other fibers or in other industrial minerals (e.g., chrysotile and talc).    From Wordnik.com.  [Geology of asbestos] Reference

And some of these tailings were nearly 100 percent tremolite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Now!] Reference

If the tiles do contain tremolite, they should be disposed of at an approved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

WorkCover New South Wales says the decorative white natural stone tiles may contain tremolite - a form of asbestos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

A geologist found a rock suspected of containing tremolite, the natural form of asbestos, at the quarry last month.    From Wordnik.com.  [billingsgazette.com] Reference

The six types of asbestos are chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite asbestos, tremolite asbestos, and actinolite asbestos.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Finally, in the early '80s, they told the men it was tremolite, but it was the harmless form of tremolite, so not to worry about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Now!] Reference

The 60-year-old retiree said he told his managers in the late 1980s that he was concerned to find that tremolite is a form of asbestos.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

Attorneys for some Libby residents blame tremolite asbestos for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Abundance of tremolite may also be disadvantageous to limestones and marbles, because it weathers to a greenish-yellow clay and leaves a pitted surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

When soil samples showed the property was covered with asbestos-laced tremolite from the mine, the Parkers were forced to shut down the business and move.    From Wordnik.com.  [IdahoStatesman.com News Updates] Reference

The tiles, which were imported from China, contain tremolite asbestos, a prohibited hazardous substance, the Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said today.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Attorneys for some residents of the town of Libby blame tremolite asbestos from the vermiculite for about 2,000 cases of illness and about 225 deaths in and around the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference

The tiles, which were imported from China, contain tremolite asbestos, a prohibited hazardous substance, the Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said on Saturday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Burnett said he purchased the mill in 1989, and Grace transferred the lease agreement over to him without telling him the property was contaminated with harmful tremolite asbestos.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"It was a purpose of the conspiracy to conceal and misrepresent the hazardous nature of the tremolite asbestos contaminated vermiculite, thereby enriching defendants and others," the indictment read.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

"It was a purpose of the conspiracy to conceal and misrepresent the hazardous nature of the tremolite asbestos contaminated vermiculite, thereby enriching defendants and others," the indictment reads.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

Kevin Cassidy, a prosecutor for the U.S. Justice Department's environmental crimes section, suggested that the study was evidence that top company officials had begun to understand that tremolite asbestos in Libby was different than the more common variety of commercial asbestos.    From Wordnik.com.  [billingsgazette.com] Reference

In the first case (31) are varieties of felspar; in the second case (32) are micaceous and other mineral substances; in the third case (33) are basaltic hornblende, tremolite, &c.; in the fourth case (34) are varieties of asbestus, which defies the action of fire; jeffersonite; jenite from the Elba.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

In the government's quest to prove charges of knowing endangerment, a violation of the federal Clean Air Act, prosecutors are attempting to show that Grace and its top officials withheld information about the known dangers of the vermiculite ore, which when disturbed releases dangerous tremolite asbestos fibers into the air.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The types amosite, anthopyllite, tremolite and actinolite are quantitatively (together 50 000.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Introductory part: Asbestos - Deposits, uses, types, characteristics] Reference

I endeavoured, but without success, to find tremolite (Grammatite of Hauy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

(tremolite).    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Introduction] Reference

"Molybdenite, kaolin, tremolite, schorl, adularia, garnet, actinolite, precious serpentine (remarkably elegant), epidote and diallage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823] Reference

We find along the precipices its two unequivocal varieties, the schistose and the granitic, passing not unfrequently, the former into a true mica schist, the latter into a pale feldspathose rock, thickly pervaded by needle-like crystals of tremolite, that, from the style of the grouping, and the contrast existing between the dark green of the enclosed mineral, and the pale flesh-color of the ground, frequently furnishes specimens of great beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference