Asbestos is a mineral that is found in many places in the world. Up until the 1970′s asbestos use was wide and varied. Often mixed with other materials, asbestos has heat retardant and insulating properties which resulted in it being used a lot in construction.
Asbestos was made into cloth, yarn, felt, cement and wallboards. This demonstrates that asbestos was used to widely that it can still be found in many buildings...
