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I December 16, 1970 AIRMAIL
Dr. John A. Zapp, Jr. E.Z. DuPont deNemours & Company Haskell Laboratories Wilmington, Delaware 19898
Dear Dr. Zapp:
Your name was given to us over the telephone
this morning by Dr. Shield with the American Conference
of Industrial Hygienists in Cincinnati. Dr. Shield stated
that you were a member of a comm* ~~ --*
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ROBERT E. BUCKLEY
vice prcsiocmt-saics
PITTSBURGH CORNING CORPORATION
ONE GATEWAY CENTER PITTSBURGH.PA. IS2Z2
January 15, 1968
Mr. Kenneth Keuper
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Room 1240, Engineering Dept.
Loviers Building
E. I. Dupont
Wilmington, Delaware
Dear Mr. Keuper:
UNIBESTOS, the high temperature insulation manufactured by Pittsburgh Corning Corporation is. composed of fibers of Amosite asbestos. UNIBESTOS contains no Chrysotile or Crocidolite fibers. It is composed exclusively of the ferrous magnesium silicate fiber with suitable fillers and binders. Typical analysis of the main asbestos groups are:
Chrysotile
Crocidolite
Amosite
S i02 . FeO
Fe23 MgO
Na20
h2o
-
All other
(HnO) CdO| K2O1 C^2 1
39.8 1.1 0.8
39.5 0.1
12.0
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6*7
51.4 20.3 17.5
1.4 6.2 1.9
1.3
49.3 40.9
0.4 5.7 0.2 1.9
1.6
100.0
100.0
. 100.0
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