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NYC-WTC_000142615Machine-extracted titleSummary CDC/ATSDR informational document explaining asbestos types, exposure routes, and health effects including inhalation risks for workers and families.
What is asbestos?
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NYC-WTC_000142710Machine-extracted titleSummary Draft Q&A explaining asbestos properties, health risks from airborne fibers, and exposure duration concerns.
Asbestos exposure
becomes a health concern when high concentrations of asbestos fibers become
airborne and are breathed in over a long period of time.
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NYC-WTC_000142691Machine-extracted titleSummary Document describing the four main types of asbestos minerals: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, and anthophyllite.
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ow is asbestos used?
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NYC-WTC_000142692Machine-extracted titleSummary Document describing the four main types of asbestos minerals: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, and anthophyllite.
W• hat are the health hazards of
contained asbestos: exposure to asbestos?
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NYC-WTC_000142618Machine-extracted titleSummary Health agency publication answering frequent questions about the health effects and environmental fate of asbestos fibers.
use asbestos.
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NYC-WTC_000141798Machine-extracted titleSummary Newspaper excerpt discussing expert opinions on the unknown long-term health effects of the hazardous mix of substances at Ground Zero.
NYC-WTC_000141798
ASBESTOS AT GROUND ZERO
USE A fre-resistant fbrous min-
RISK$ Breathing high levels of
eral, asbestos was used in parts
asbestos fibers for long perlods
of the World Trade:Center to
- usually years- may
