amianthus

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἀμίαντος (amíantos, undefiled), from ἀ- (a-, not) + μιαίνω (miaínō, I defile).

Noun

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amianthus (usually uncountable, plural amianthuses)

  1. A type of asbestos with long, soft, thin fibers.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section I:
      the Microscope can afford us hundreds of Instances of Points many thousand times sharper: such as [] the ends of the stiriæ or small parallelipipeds of Amianthus []

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Further reading

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  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Amianthus”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • amianthus”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.