Asbestos and Fire : : Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk / / Rachel Maines.
For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in virtually every industry from hotel ke...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 24 figures, 4 tables |
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