a fibrous mineral used in the manufacture of heat and acid-proof asbestos
amosite in American English
(ˈæməˌsait)
noun
Mineralogy
an asbestine variety of anthophyllite, rich in iron, formerly used as a heat-resistant material
Word origin
[1915–20; A(sbestos) M(ine) o(f) S(outh Africa) + -ite1]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: GI, conditioning, feedback, neorealism, stockpile-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)
Examples of 'amosite' in a sentence
amosite
System-built schools included blue (crocidolite), brown (amosite) and white (chrysotile) asbestos long after the dangers were proved.