Fast forward to the 1900's and asbestos was being used in everything from chimneys to brakes and everything in between. Asbestos can be found in walls, roofs, cladding, …show more content…
White is the most common and is still legal to use in some countries (not Australia). Due to refining impurities a material that is made from white asbestos will still contain blue and brown asbestos, just not as much.
Blue and brown asbestos are deadly. Blue and brown asbestos was banned in Australia in 1983 and it is illegal to use in most countries today. Blue asbestos is the most deadly and is though to be responsible for most of the deaths caused by asbestos. Once an asbestos fibre is lodged in your lung it can stay there for life. When viewed from a microscope the fibre will appear as a pin. When cells try to encapsulate the asbestos fibre they are popped by the pin shaped asbestos fibre. This is why the asbestos fibre is deadly.
Asbestos is fire resistant, strong, light, cheap and resistant to mould and fungus. It was thought as the perfect building material, but it kills, sometimes it can take over thirty years for symptoms to appear and one they do most people are given six months to live. A friend of mine who is a nurse said she thought that asbestos disease was the worst way to go and that she had never seen anyone so much