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Asbestos is a carcinogenic fibrous mineral with several applications such as a flame retardant.

It may also refer to:

Places

• Asbestos, Maryland, former name for an unincorporated area

• Val-des-Sources, a city in Quebec known as Asbestos until 2020
  • The former Asbestos Regional County Municipality, Quebec, now renamed Les Sources Regional County Municipality
• Asbestos Range National Park, Tasmania, Australia, is now the Narawntapu National Park
• Port Asbestos (fictional), a fictional location on the Red Green show
• Asbest, town in Russia

Other

• Asbestos-ceramic, types of Scandinavian pottery c. 1900 BC – 200 AD
• Asbestos Records, a record label
• HMCS Asbestos (K358), a Canadian warship
• AsbestOS, a bootloader to run on Linux on PlayStation 3
• Asbestos, a Hawthorn Leslie saddle tank locomotive

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