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| Domain | Definition |
Geography | A lavender-blue or leek-green mineral of the amphibole group that occurs in silky fibres. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A name for crocidolite, the asbestiform variety of riebeckite. (references) |
Public Administration | A variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Mauritius | Imports of the following items are prohibited: ball valve bottles, caps for toy guns, recapped tires, white phosphorous matches, certain firecrackers, kerosene stoves, water scooters, ivory and tortoise shell, underwater fishing guns, candy in the form of cigarettes, toy crash helmets, cigarette papers, used motor vehicle spare parts, electric water heaters with bare elements, portable electric lamps, teething rings, rolling machines (other than industrial-type rolling machines) for cigarette manufacturing, blue asbestos and its products, and items containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). A detailed list is available from the Embassy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blue asbestos | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLUE ASBESTOS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | krokydolit (crocidolite), crocidolit (crocidolite). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | blauw asbest (crocidolite), crocidoliet (crocidolite). (various references) | ||||
French | crocidolite, asbeste du Cap, asbeste bleu. (various references) | ||||
German | Blauasbest (crocidolite), Krokydolit (crocidolite). (various references) | ||||
Italian | crocidolite (crocidolite). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ueblay asbestosay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-e-l-o-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outblesses. | |
-3 letters: absolutes, boletuses, subleases. | |
-4 letters: abbesses, absolute, asbestos, asbestus, baseless, beatless, outbless, sabulose, seatless, setulose, soleuses, stubbles, subbases, sublates, sublease, subsales, tubeless. | |
-5 letters: bassets, baubees, baubles, blesses, blouses, boatels, bolases, boletes, boletus, boluses, bubales, bustles, eluates, lassoes, loesses, lotuses, oblasts, oblates, oleates, outsees, salutes, solates, solutes, stables, stubble, subbase, subbass, sublate, sublets, sublots. | |
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| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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