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1 remember here today is that when chrysotile fibers get 1 earlier during Mr. Shellenberger's opening statement?
2 into the human bodies, they degrade, while amphibole 2
When you grind brake parts, what happens is
3 fibers do not.
3 that the chrysotile fibers don't come off free, they
,4 What I mean by that is if chrysotile gets
4 come off stuck in that resin and what that resin does
5 into the human body, within a month or a few weeks of 5 is frequently prevents people from breathing those
6 getting into the human body, it disintegrates and goes 6 fibers, and that is because it both makes the fibers
7 away.
7 bigger and changes their shape so they get stuck in
8
Now, on the other hand, the human body is
8 the body's defensive system.
9 incapable of ridding itself of amphibole fibers. Once
9
That brings us to the fifth out of five
10 in, they stay there forever, where they sit around and 10 reasons why mesothelioma is not caused by brake and
11 are available to cause disease many years later, so
11 clutch parts.
12 that is really the third reason.
12 Again, this really has nothing to do with
13 The difference in the body's ability to deal 13 the difference between chrysotile and amphibole
14 with chrysotile and amphibole asbestos.
14 fibers. It has more to do with the actual science
15 Now, the fourth reason is something that 15 behind the braking and clutching process itself.
16 really doesn't have anything to do with the difference 16
Now, what happens when you either brake or
17 in fibers.
17 clutch is two parts come together and create friction.
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What it has to do with is the manufacturing
18 and they come together like this, and what happens is
19 process by which brake and clutch products are
19 when the two parts come together, the car stops or the
20 manufactured.
20 gear is disengaged so that you can change gears.
21
You are going to hear evidence in this case
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As a byproduct of the two parts coming
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1 somewhere between approximately 25 or 30 percent or 60 1 together, you get incredible heat. When I say
2 percent of each brake and clutch part used to be
2 incredible heat, I mean heat in the range of 2000
3 composed of chrysotile fibers. What makes up the
3 degrees Fahrenheit.
4 remaining percentage? The 70 percent, 40 to 70
4 What it does during the braking process, it
5 percent that is left over.
5 takes the chrysotile fibers that come into contact
6 Generally speaking, what is used to make up
6 with the other part of the brake and it melts them.
7 the rest of the product is something called a resin
7 They are gone and converts them into a different
8 which is just another name for a man-made sap or
8 product entirely.
9 glue.
9 Studies show that the braking process
10 When you think about it, it makes sense that 10 converts almost all of the chrysotile fibers that are
11 you need a resin because the resin actually holds the
11 available into forsterite which is this different
12 chrysotile fiber together so that the part would
12 substance that I was talking about.
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13 work.
13 The important thing to remember about
14 If you didn't have a resin, all you would
14 forsterite is just like the chrysotile products that
15 have would be a bunch of loose chrysotile fibers. You
15 are used in brake and clutch products, forsterite
16 wouldn't have a part. You wouldn't be able to stop
16 doesn't cause disease either. It causes no disease,
17 your car or change gears.
17 including mesothelioma.
18 The resin holds the part together.
18 All right. So I have talked to you about j
19
What is so important about the resin when we
19 the five reasons why mesothelioma is not caused by
20 are talking about mesothelioma?
20 brake and clutch parts. But how do we know that that
21 Remember about the grinding you heard
21 is so?
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