{"id":21739,"date":"2025-11-08T01:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21739"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:02:07","slug":"asbestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asbestos\/","title":{"rendered":"Asbestos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Asbestos<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Asbestos is a generic term for a\u00a0group of six silicate minerals with similar but distinct properties.<\/li>\n<li>These are generally divided into\u00a0two sub-groups;\u00a0serpentine and amphiboles. Serpentine asbestos (chrysotile or white asbestos) was the most commonly used type of asbestos.<\/li>\n<li>Properties:\n<ul>\n<li>These are\u00a0resistant to heat and corrosion.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0is non-flammable even at very high temperatures and is extremely flexible and durable.<\/li>\n<li>It has good\u00a0tensile strength.<\/li>\n<li>It has low heat conductivity and high resistance to electricity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It was once widely used in\u00a0construction materials, insulation and consumer goods.<\/li>\n<li>India&#8217;s asbestos requirement is met through\u00a0imports from Russia, Kazakhstan, Brazil and China.<\/li>\n<li>The newly banned\u00a0chrysotile asbestos in the USA was primarily used by the\u00a0chlor-alkali industry, which produces chlorine bleach, caustic soda and other chemicals used in water treatment.<\/li>\n<li>Health impacts:\n<ul>\n<li>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/world-health-organisation\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>World Health Organization<\/u><\/a>, all varieties of asbestos are associated with conditions such as\u00a0lung cancer, mesothelioma, laryngeal cancer, ovarian cancer and asbestosis, a lung fibrosis.<\/li>\n<li>If products containing asbestos are disturbed, tiny asbestos fibers are released into the air.<\/li>\n<li>When asbestos fibers are breathed in, they may get trapped in the lungs and remain there for a long time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Corrosion?<\/h3>\n<p>It is wearing away due to chemical reactions, mainly oxidation.It occurs whenever a gas or liquid chemically attacks an exposed surface, often a metal, and is accelerated by warm temperatures and by acids and salts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/united-states-bans-white-asbestos-last-of-its-kind-still-in-use-95093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>United States bans white asbestos, last of its kind still in use<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asbestos  is a generic term for a group of six silicate minerals with similar but distinct properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}