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| May 27, 2021 at 8:49 | comment | added | A. B. | I think the usual idea is that it's only dangerous when it's disturbed, though. I'm not sure whether turning pages would be enough of a disturbance to release loose fibres, but it's certainly more of one than just leaving it where it is in an attic. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 23:18 | comment | added | Paul Sinclair | @Anoplexian - asbestos is nowhere near as deadly as that. There are very good reasons for it now being considered a hazardous material, but only those heavily exposed to loose asbestos fibers are at significant risk, and even the majority of them have few noticable effects (not an endorsement - "better than 50% chance you won't die" doesn't alleviate worry). I grew up with the stuff. It wasn't until I was an adult that it was declared hazardous and suddenly we had to remove/contain a very widely used building material. Reading an entire library of asbestos books is unlikely to kill you. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 3:21 | comment | added | John | you don't need to worry about fabric, asbestos paper is a real thing and easier to make than asbestos fabric. you can even write on it. | |
| May 25, 2021 at 19:35 | comment | added | Anoplexian | @LCooper even better, the reason the religious texts aren't to be copied is BECAUSE of this toxicity. Because even reading the text in its entirety is enough to kill. If your religious book kills you, that makes it easy to spawn a religious belief that is more "For your protection, it is forbidden to copy" than anything else. | |
| May 25, 2021 at 16:01 | comment | added | Cooper | @Mast This seems like a feature rather than a bug for a fantastical medieval setting; add in some flavor where the medieval folks believe that the workers are dying because they literally poured their souls into the preserved texts, or something like that. | |
| May 25, 2021 at 12:21 | comment | added | Mast | Asbestos is bloody sharp when damaged (cuts through garbage bags like a knife) and the fibers will kill your workers (causing a very specific form of lung cancer) if they work for many years with the stuff, but in a medieval setting the likelihood of dying from anything else is so high already that it probably won't matter much. | |
| May 25, 2021 at 10:52 | vote | accept | Dastardly | ||
| May 25, 2021 at 8:28 | comment | added | PcMan | Who needs ink? You just weave white (Chrysotile ) asbestos cloth, then embroider it with black(ok dark blue Crocidolite ) asbestos. The end result is utterly fireproof and waterproof, very wear-resistant, flexible, and will never fade, run or distort the text. It ignores UV light. being strong and flexible it ignores even ice formation. No creature or insect or fungus will try to eat it. Text like this could survive being out in the wilderness and exposed to the elements for millenia, subject to only mechanical wear. | |
| May 25, 2021 at 4:09 | comment | added | DWKraus | @GrumpyYoungMan I was already composing this answer when you made your comment. Asbestos was regularly made into cloth, so it should actually be pretty light as well. | |
| May 25, 2021 at 3:31 | history | edited | DWKraus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 25, 2021 at 3:05 | history | answered | DWKraus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |