chrysotile

The debate is whether chrysotile, or some variants of it, are dangerous and to what degree.

White asbestos (chrysotile) has a much lower risk[1], far more widespread use, and there are still active chrysotile mines in Russia and China.

Right, what I mean is all asbestos is treated as if it was chrysotile, when not all is.

The OP is for some reason focused on chrysotile (asbestos) panels rather than panels skinned with fibre reinforced cement which appears to be what this actually is.

White asbestos (chrysotile) is relatively safe especially if used as an encapsulated filler.

Let's wait and see if it is the next chrysotile asbestos.

This cancer is also linked to all forms of asbestos, although amphibole asbestos appears to be more potent (causes cancer at lower levels of exposure) than chrysotile..

The white asbestos (chrysotile) that the article talks about is listed as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the US Dept of Health.

We had knit asbestos gloves at our house when I was young, and chunks of chrysotile you could just peel for hours as a distraction.

Crocidolite is much more carcinogenic than chrysotile.

Trump’s EPA had a plan to reconsider a 2024 ban on chrysotile asbestos, but that was pulled back in July and the EPA will indeed preserve and defend the ban.

> and chunks of chrysotile you could just peel for hours as a distraction.

Crocidolite "blue asbestos" was first banned long ago due to its severe effects, but chrysotile (white asbestos) is far less dangerous.

This may surprise a lot of HN readers, but I have the same belief about PCBs[1] and chrysotile (white asbestos)[2] --- "the dose makes the poison".

The FDA did test randomly test a bunch of talc products and the "FDA found “sub-trace” levels, or no greater than 0.00002%, of chrysotile asbestos contamination in a bottle purchased from an online retailer." That's 0.2 parts per million, or 200 nanograms in a gram, or 200 micrograms in a kilogram of powder in one sample.

An example name is Ixion Eleven Chrysotile, the name of the autonomous robot who is the narrator of my Fabric stories.

Chrysotile has been shown to not be harmful in small doses.

Chrysotile is the form most common in building material.