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The Destruction of Chrysotile Asbestos Using Waste Acids

Leslie Heasman

Waste Research Unit, Harwell Laboratory, Oxon OX I 0RA, U.K.

Grant Baldwint

Waste Research Unit, Harwell Laboratory, Oxon OX I 0RA, U.K.

The destruction of chrysotile asbestos by some waste acids that are available in considerable quantities in the U.K. was examined. A nitric/chromic waste from the electroplating industry was most effective causing essentially complete destruction of asbestos at room temperature in 10 h using fibre:fluid ratios up to 1:10 without agitation. Reagent grade nitric acid was far less effective while a waste sulphuric acid from the titanium dioxide industry and a mixture of acids from the metal finishing industry were intermediate in behaviour.

Key Words: Asbestos • chrysotile • chemical destructions • waste acids • electroplating acids.

Waste Management & Research, Vol. 4, No. 1, 215-223 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X8600400121
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