asbestify
English
Etymology
From asbestos + -ify.
Verb
asbestify (third-person singular simple present asbestifies, present participle asbestifying, simple past and past participle asbestified)
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{{rfdef}}.- 1918, Motor World for Jobbers, Dealers and Garagemen, volume 55, page 35, column 2:
- The connecting rod bearings are brass backed and asbestified and have four bolts, insuring rigidity and providing a wider margin of safety.
- 1919, Geological Survey of Canada, Memoirs, page 40:
- No attempt has been made to strip the south contact of the peridotite between these two points, so that it is not known whether there is a continuous band of asbestified rock along the south contact of the peridotite.
- 1968, Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, pages 109, column 2; 110, column 1:
- In the fringe at the pegmatite contact the amphibole has been almost totally asbestified, but near offshoots the degree of its asbestification falls to 40 or 30%. […] The totally asbestified holmquistite is accompanied by grains slightly affected by this process as well as by crystals showing latent fibrousness.
- 1991, The Laryngoscope, page 51, column 2:
- The solid was stored at less than 0°C, and asbestified until mixing and use.
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