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For probably 80 years this tree stood proudly growing by the lakeshore, its branches towering 100 feet into the air. It has been somewhat of a landmark at the end of Indiana Avenue. You can see Lake Michigan there in the background.
Many a Bald Eagle has perched in its branches, looking down into the Lake for fish to scoop up and eat.
It has been dead for many years, but it had still stood strong and beautiful. Sadly, as I was walking the lakeshore two weeks ago I saw it had fallen down and given up its ghost.
I know it will slowly recycle and feed the earth with its cellulose fiber, enriching the soil. Still, it made me sad to see it lying there in its last resting place. The cycle of life brings beauty, enrichment, and emotions.
Ruins of Cellulose Factory M. in Lower Silesia/Poland. The plant was built in 1911. It produced sulphite cellulose for the production of paper.
I'm not sure what kind of tree this is, but we have a whole lot of them around our neighbourhood and... oy. They resemble a lot of body parts. This one - the butt tree, as I've nicknamed it - is a few blocks up the street from our place. And I've been meaning to do this pic ever since I first noticed it. (In fairness, I was delayed a year or so by my inability to figure out layers.)
There is also a breast tree, on the other side of the street. And many many face trees. All kinds of photo potential. And all from a single species.
One more reason to love trees. (As if I needed help in that department.)
Avec la cellulose du bois ils font du papier. Ce sont les chinois qui ont racheté l'usine, et fait pas mal d'investissements, surtout pour réduire les odeurs nauséabondes..
DuPont expanded its production capacity in Richmond throughout the 1930s due to increased use of cellophane and the introduction of Cordura rayon. Further expansions included facilities for cellulose acetate film and Cordura yarn for car tires. During World War II, the Richmond plant had War Supply Contracts for paper cellophane, cellophane and rayon yarn. These contracts resulted in a wartime peak of 4,450 workers at the Spruance site.
Though DuPont ceased production of rayon and Cordura in Richmond in the 1950s and 1960s, the Spruance site continued to produce cellophane as well as new materials such as Tyvek®, Nomex® and Teflon®. The expansion of Kevlar® facilities in 1980 marked one of the largest capital appropriations in DuPont history. Through the 1990s, DuPont expanded facilities for products such as specialty chemicals. For over six decades, Spruance has been a key site in the development of new films, continuing to adapt to DuPont’s changing needs.
Novaceta S.p.A. was an Italian company operating in the chemical-textile sector, producing continuous acetate yarn (Rayon Acetate) from cellulose triacetate derived from trees. This was a highly complex and specialised process, only achievable by a few companies in the world: Novaceta was the European (60% of the European market share in 2001) and world leader in the sector. The quality of the products was very high and appreciated by all customers. Novaceta brand Rayon Acetate was used to produce fabrics with a soft and delicate hand, silky appearance, bright and vivid colours, good breathability, hygroscopicity, antistaticity and comfort. Foulards, ties, shirts, ladies' dresses, velvets and tapestries were just some of the final products.
Hoatzins are vegetarians, feeding on leaves and buds. Similar to a cow, the Hoatzin has microbial gut flora that breaks down cellulose. The young have wing claws that they use for climbing trees. The young are adept at swimming and will jump from a nest into the water to escape predators. The claws are then used to climb back up into their nest. The claws and swimming skill is lost after about 2-3 months.
2023 Photo 341/24 Some of the nice things about living in a hardwood forest is the shade in the summertime, the cooler temperatures under the canopy, and the abundance of wildlife. The disadvantage is the autumn leaf drop. Today I went to work on leaf hell and began to blow the huge cellulose nuisance up the hill and out of gates on either side of the yard. I always wait until the last leaf has fallen, because moving them in the steep inclide is tough work. After the leaves are out of the yard, I'll blow them into the woods. (Some have asked, "Why not just toss them over the fence?" I've tried that; it's harder. ©2023 | John M. Hudson
The #FlickrFriday #Wood challenge
In 1987 a household name weather forecaster, live on TV, told the UK that the weather centre had received a call from a lady asking if a hurricane was approaching. "I can assure you there isn't" he informed us. Predictably (unless you are a weather forecaster I suppose) within hours, southern England was flattened by (err) strong winds which, while technically not a hurricane, certainly felt like one. A chap down the road from me discovered that his Porsche had newly installed living accommodation - ie a caravan on its roof. Ahhhh, schadenfreude!
OK, there's a bit of hyperbole there, but very many trees did indeed assume sudden landscape orientations on that night. Part of the image above features such a tree which now provides new habitats for fungi such as clustered bonnets like this one. It's an ill wind that blows no good as they say.
Clustered Bonnets, pretty much the commonest fungi in ancient woodland, are saprobic, meaning that they live on dead or dying matter. They are among the few organisms capable of consuming cellulose and lignin which are the main components of wood. In doing so they break it down and it is ultimately returned to the soil. Without saprobic fungi our woodlands would retain dead wood which would inhibit new growth. I should emphasise that what we see here is only the fruiting body of the organism, most of which is a huge thread-like structure called the mycelium, hidden away in whatever the fungus is growing upon. It is this that does the work of breaking down (in this case) the tree trunk, releasing nutrients into the soil. Fungi are a frequently overlooked, often misunderstood yet vital part of The Kingdom of Life. They photograph pretty well too.
This photo was taken as shown with a 12mm extension tube. Warm winter sunlight falling on decaying bracken provided the background colours. Some tweaks to colour channels and a vignette complete the processing.
Vrijdag 22 augustus was een rustige en bewolkte zomerdag, nadat ’s ochtends een fraaie Vectron van DPB op de foto was gezet werd er besloten om nogmaals langs de Bentheimroute te gaan staan om de - sinds de zomer van 2025 onregelmatig rijdende - cellulosetrein tussen Sloehaven en Olšany vast te leggen.
Het is 16:16 wanneer de 1828 van RFO met op sleep de 383 020 van ČDC en de cellulosetrein de enkele fotograaf in De Lutte passeert, komende uit Oldenzaal richting het Duitse Bad Bentheim.
La 2341 y 2343 son las encargadas de llevar el celuloso desde Collipulli hacia el sur, en la planta de celulosa en San José de la Mariquina. PK-666-20, Lautaro sur.
The 2341 and 2343 are responsible for maintaining the cellulose from Collipulli south in the pulp mill in San Jose de la Mariquina. PK-666-20, Lautaro south, Chile.
Asian elephants mainly use scrub forest, although their habitat can vary. They can be found in the jungle, but generally on the edge where open, grassy areas are accessible. They prefer areas that combine grass, low woody plants, and forest. Elephants rarely forage in one area for more than a few days in a row.
Elephants live in matriarchal breeding herds made up of mothers, aunts and their offspring. Once males reach puberty, around age 12, they get kicked out and start traveling alone or forming small bachelor herds.
Female Asian elephants bear a single calf (usually) after a gestation of more than a year and a half (18 to 22 months). Their estrus cycle is about 22 days, out of which they are receptive to copulation on only one day, the first day of estrus. There is no seasonality in their reproduction. Females on good quality habitats give birth every three to four years, while the interbirth interval can be much longer among females inhabiting poor quality areas. Newborns weigh about 100 kg and can stand soon after birth. The infant may nurse from its mother or from other lactating females. After a few days it can follow its mother as she goes about her normal activities. Young begin to eat some grass after several months but may continue nursing for 18 months. They also eat their mother's dung, which contains nutrients as well as the symbiotic bacteria that aid in the digestion of cellulose. Mothers continue to supervise their young for several years after weaning. Both sexes become sexually mature at about 14 years of age, but males cannot mate until they can dominate other adult males. Males leave their natal herd at this age, but females remain with their female relatives throughout their lives.
Op 5 juli 2013 reed Locon een lege cellulose trein vanuit Osnabrück naar de Sloehaven. Op deze dag werd de trein gereden door de enige nog gele 1800 van Locon, de 9901 en passeert hier de bocht nabij Holten.
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On the 5th of July 2013 Locon drove an empty cellulose train from Osnabrück to the Sloe harbor. On this day the train was hauled by the last yellow 1800 of Locon, the 9901 and passes here Holten on its way to the far south west of the country.
Squirrels mate once or twice a year and have their young between three to six weeks later, the young are born naked toothless and blind, normally it is the female who looks after the young and they are weaned between six to ten weeks. Unfortunately many squirrels die in the first year of their life, but they can have a lifespan of 5 to 10 years in the wild and in captivity they can have a lifespan of 10 to 20 years. The front teeth of the squirrel grow throughout its life and the check teeth are set back behind a wide gap for chewing their food. Squirrels cannot digest cellulose therefore they must rely of foods rich in protein, during the colder months of the year this can be very difficult because some of the food they have buried have started to grow making the food not edible and they now have to rely on new tree buds etc.
In a pitch-black hall of mirrors (ISO 25600), artist Julian Charrière presents the
Panchronic Garden -
specially developed for the museum, a seemingly endless greenhouse full of plants, living ferns that glow jet black when bathed in infrared light. This installation evokes the history of coal mining in North Rhine-Westphalia and the huge primeval forests of the Carboniferous that grew there 300 million years ago.
Charrière clarifies also with this
which unimaginably long periods of time the earth's history is in comparison with human scales.
Why the artist is concerned ...
The title of his exhibition is "Controlled Burn"
The basic material of coal is mainly of plant origin.
Typical coal formation takes its beginning in extensive swamp forests of lowlands. The trees and ferns bind carbon dioxide, CO2 from the air by means of photosynthesis and convert it into the carbohydrate cellulose and other organic compounds.
After individual trees die, they sink into the swamp and are thus removed from the normal aerobic decomposition process - peat is initially formed.
Coal is formed from the peat when subsidence occurs over geological periods of time, i.e. many tens of millions of years, and overburden.
In this process, with increasing depth of subsidence, both the ambient pressure and the ambient temperature rise to well above 1000°. This causes the so-called incarburization of the peaty sediments.
Initially, lignite is formed. As the depth of injection increases, the coalification process intensifies. Lignite becomes hard coal and finally anthracite. For this reason, the quality of coal is often better the deeper it lies in the earth and the older it is.
Similar processes occur in the formation of oil and gas. The artist wants to make clear to us the time span of our waste and the corresponding climate and earth damage in proportion to the formation time of the fossil energy sources ...
Betreten auf eigen Gefahr ...
In einem stockfinsteren Spiegelsaal (ISO 25600) stellt der Künstler Julian Charrière den eigens für das Museum entwickelte
Panchronischen Garten
vor – ein scheinbar endloses Gewächshaus voller Pflanzen, lebendige Farne, die in Infrarotlicht getaucht, tiefschwarz leuchten. Diese Installation erinnert an die Geschichte des Kohleabbaus in Nordrhein-Westfalen und an die
riesigen Urwälder des Karbons, die dort vor 300 Millionen Jahren wuchsen.
Charrière verdeutlicht auch mit diesem
Werk, welche unvorstellbar langen Zeiträume die Erdge-
schichte im Vergleich zu menschlichen Massstäben
kennzeichnen.
Sein Ausstellungstitel - Controlled Burn ...
Das Ausgangsmaterial von Kohle ist hauptsächlich pflanzlichen Ursprungs.
Typische Kohlebildung nimmt ihren Anfang in ausgedehnten Sumpfwäldern von Tiefebenen. Die Bäume und Farne binden mittels Photosynthese Kohlendioxid, CO2 aus der Luft und wandeln es in das Kohlenhydrat Zellulose und andere organische Verbindungen um.
Nach dem Absterben einzelner Bäume versinken diese im Sumpf und werden so dem normalen aeroben Zersetzungsprozess entzogen – es entsteht zunächst Torf.
Aus dem Torf entsteht Kohle, wenn es zu Absenkung über geologische Zeiträume hinweg, also viele dutzend Millionen Jahre kommt und zu Überdeckungen.
Dabei steigen mit zunehmender Versenkungstiefe sowohl der Umgebungsdruck als auch die Umgebungstemperatur bis weit über 1000°. Dies verursacht die sogenannte Inkohlung der torfigen Sedimente.
Dabei entsteht zunächst Braunkohle. Mit zunehmender Versenkung intensiviert sich die Inkohlung. Aus Braunkohle wird Steinkohle und schließlich Anthrazit. Deshalb ist die Qualität von Kohle oft umso besser, je tiefer sie in der Erde liegt und je älter sie ist.
Ähnliche Prozesse laufen bei der Entstehung von Öl und Gas ab. Der Künstler möchte uns die Zeitspanne unserer Verschwendung und der entsprechenden Klima- und Erdschädigung in der Proportion zur Entstehungszeit der fossilen Energieträger verdeutlichen ...
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Ruins of a cellulose factory in Lower Silesia/Poland. The plant was built in 1911. It produced sulphite cellulose for the production of paper.
[Designed by: Me] [Folded by: Me] [Paper used: a single uncut square of methyl-cellulose treated tissue] [derek.mcgann.com]
Most trees up close is a gnarley and disorganized affairs. Farther away, their imposing and majestic nature is clear.
La Stérée hirsute apparaît sur le bois mort de feuillus exposé à l'humidité. Les troncs morts et les branches cassées se couvrent couramment de ce champignon saprophyte dégradant la cellulose comme la lignine, et nommé couramment pourriture blanche.
🇬🇧 The False turkey tail appears on dead hardwood exposed to moisture. Dead trunks and broken branches are commonly covered with this saprophytic fungus that degrades cellulose as well as lignin, and is commonly called white rot.
Stérée hirsute / False turkey tail / Stereum hirsutum
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The vast majority of buttons in my vintage collection are pre-1930s, but a few are later than that. These two caught my eye recently. They're by French artist and accessory maker Léa Stein and date from the 1960s. The brass thimble is also 1960s and the Sylko cotton reels are from the 1930s - 1950s.
Corto Laja, servicio 845 y de frente, tren 50083, el celuloso de Mariquina, entrando a los patios de Hualqui.
"Corto Laja" service nº 845 and abreast, train 50083, the Mariquina's cellulose one, entering to Hualqui's yards.
Laetiporus sulphureus ("chicken of the woods") is a bright yellow-orange, shelf-forming polypore that grows in clusters on living or dead hardwoods and causes brown rot by primarily degrading cellulose. Fruiting bodies appear from late spring to autumn. When young it is considered edible, but intolerances occur and specimens from toxic host trees should be avoided.
In this episode Eric guides the explorers to the Historic Bagg Square district of Utica to explore the Proctor Memorial Building and it's mystery vault that now stand on the grounds of the former Bagg Hotel. Are there hidden bootlegger tunnels? Just what is the mystery building?
A fungus (plural: fungi) is a kind of living organism: yeasts, moulds and mushrooms are types of fungi. The fungi are a separate kingdom of living things, different from animals and plants. Fungi have cells with nuclei. Their cell walls contain chitin, unlike the cell walls of plants, which contain cellulose.
From April through to the first heavy frosts, a walk in mixed woodland rarely fails to reveal Sulphur Tufts fruiting on fallen trees, decaying stumps or, occasionally, hollow trunks of living trees.
This wood-rotting fungus is not a fussy feeder it tackles deciduous hardwoods as well as conifers apparently with equal relish, although it is most effective in rotting broadleaf trees (hardwoods), which generally have a higher cellulose content and rather lower lignin content than conifers.
Cellulose Communication Breakdown | Day 212 / 365. Taken on the verge of the day.
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Squirrels mate once or twice a year and have their young between three to six weeks later, the young are born naked, toothless and blind, normally it is the female who looks after the young and they are weaned between six to ten weeks. Unfortunately many squirrels die in the first year of their life, but they can have a lifespan of 5 to 10 years in the wild and in captivity they can have a lifespan of 10 to 20 years. The front teeth of the squirrel grow throughout its life and the check teeth are set back behind a wide gap for chewing their food. Squirrels cannot digest cellulose therefore they must rely on foods rich in protein, during the colder months of the year this can be very difficult because some of the food they have buried have started to grow making the food not edible and they now have to rely on new tree buds etc.
Lugar_Citadino
{La Ciudad y otros lugares}
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The Place / El Lugar
Route 152 (or Autopista del Itata, in spanish)
Between Route 5 and Itata River
Next to Nueva Aldea Cellulose Plant & Factory (Arauco Inc.)
Town of Quinchamalí
City of Chillán
Ñuble region
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Ruta 152 (o Autopista del Itata)
También conocida como "Acceso Norte a Concepción)
Entre Ruta 5 (Panamericana) y Río Itata
Próximo a Planta de Celulosa "Nueva Aldea" (Arauco)
Pueblo de Quinchamalí
Ciudad de Chillán
Región del Ñuble
Chile
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July, 2021 | Julio de 2021
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I have a collection of wings. These here belong to the iron line, they are super strong ;-)
Came out unpurposely, elaborating for fun one of my industrial photos, this one on a sewing machine little wheel to roll the yarns.
Macro stereoscopic photography & 3-D digital painting by #WhiteANGEL in blue tone-on-tone colours.
Real size for prints/lithos & serigraphy on paper and fabric is up to 100x100cm. (suitable size for tapestry, upholstery, pareos, large scarves, plaids, curtains, clothing and in general any interior design, home decor & fashion textile application).
This square footage is just a sample for my creative portfolio.
The resolution in the HD file is very high and allows to appreciate every single detail and the colour hues.
Applications of HD rendering on canvas for big framed pictures and wallart as well as prints on cellulose or fibre wallpaper are amazing. It would look cool on T-shirts too if printed in serigraphy.
#PlanisphericArt by ©WhiteAngel. All rights reserved.
Das Baufeld Zellulose-Werk in Ust Ilimsk im Winter bei bis - 40°C. Es sind Tage wo die Temperaturen darunter liegen;
The construction cellulosic plant in Ust Ilimsk in winter at up to - 40 ° C. These are days when the temperatures are below;
Folks wouldn't normally expect to find significantly damaged asbestos materials in their very own workplace, inside a return-air plenum just feet above their heads, hidden from view by a suspended ceiling system...or would they?
This particular pipe insulation material has four distinct layers: two layers that contain asbestos and two that don't. The thin black-felt inner liner and the outer grey paper underneath the canvas, contain asbestos. The brown, thick, perforated mid-layers and thin outer canvas are cellulose-based and do not contain asbestos.
This pipe insulation material was designed to insulate colder pipe systems to prevent sweating or condensation, such as on the pictured galvanized cold water pipe.
Similar pipe insulation material, with a thin asbestos felt liner, has also been known as: "Duplex". Sampling this type of pipe insulation has been known to be problematic for less experienced surveyors/inspectors, sometimes missing the thin asbestos felt layer below the dense bulk of the non-asbestos cellulose layers.
Asbestos-containing spray-applied fireproofing shown above a suspended ceiling system with friable, delaminated debris on top of the ceiling panels. This particular soft, fluffy material contains approx. 35% chrysotile asbestos.
In this building, the entire area above the suspended ceiling system is utilized as an air plenum, whereby large volumes of air movement are continually recirculated through the space and redistributed to building occupants via the HVAC system. In addition to this, the small dots shown on the backside of the suspended ceiling panels (non-ACM cellulose/perlite/fiberglass tile) are actually small hole perforations that were designed to allow conditioned air movement through the panels. Any chance for microscopic airborne asbestos fibers to migrate through to occupied areas?
Asbestos survey quantities should also include estimates of the extra surface areas impacted by such delaminated debris and subsequent contamination as well as areas of "over-spray". Further, building occupants, especially maintenance personnel should be informed of the liklihood of encountering asbestos debris if servicing components above the suspended ceiling plane, in addition to receiving appropriate levels of asbestos training if working in proximity to asbestos materials (a written Operations & Maintentance Plan; "O & M").
Avec la cellulose du bois ils font du papier. Ce sont les chinois qui ont racheté l'usine, et fait pas mal d'investissements, surtout pour réduire les odeurs nauséabondes..
Na drie treinen in zes minuten bleef het ietsjes langer stil, maar na 12 minuten kwam goederentrein nummer 4 vanuit Eindhoven aanzetten. Ditmaal een trein voor op de modelbaan, want DBC 189 097 mocht maar liefst vijf schuifwandwagens vanuit Kijfhoek naar Duitsland brengen en passeert de fotograaf in Helmond Brouwhuis op weg naar Venlo.
Miscanthus giganteus is a large perennial grass hybrid of Miscanthus sinensis and Miscanthus sacchariflorus native to Japan. It is currently used in the European Union as a commercial energy crop. It is used as a source of heat and electricity, or converted into biofuel products such as ethanol. Miscanthus is an environmentally friendly crop. Its large root system captures nutrients, and stems provide wildlife cover. As a high yielding, low input perennial, Miscanthus is also excellent for carbon sequestration and soil building.
M. giganteus is a C4 plant, and thus exhibits greater photosynthetic efficiency and lower water use requirements than other kinds of plants. It has very low nutritional requirements – it has high nitrogen use efficiency and therefore is capable of growing well on barren land without the aid of heavy fertilization. M. giganteus is a sterile hybrid, and therefore propagates vegetatively through its rhizomes. This quality makes it attractive for growth in areas foreign to M. giganteus – it is a completely non-invasive species. Additional researched benefits of M. giganteus include its ability to sequester carbon into the earth.
Research trials being conducted in the United Kingdom, United States and Ireland are making strides towards developing Miscanthus x giganteus as a source of biomass for the production of energy either for direct combustion or through cellulosic ethanol or other biofuel production. Miscanthus is grown in Europe mainly for co-firing in coal power generating facilities and could supply 12% of the EU's energy need by 2050.
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Riesen-Chinaschilf (Miscanthus × giganteus) ist eine natürliche Kreuzung aus dem Chinaschilf (Miscanthus sinensis) und Miscanthus sacchariflorus. Es stammt ursprünglich aus Japan. Um 1935 wurde Miscanthus × giganteus von Japan über Dänemark nach Mitteleuropa eingeführt. Das Riesen-Chinaschilf ist wie alle Miscanthus-Arten mehrjährig und bildet ein sprossbürtiges Rhizom, aus dem die Pflanzen austreiben.
Riesen-Chinaschilf verfügt über den sogenannten C4-Metabolismus, eine unter bestimmten Umweltbedingungen besonders ergiebige Form der Photosynthese; daher zeichnet sich die Pflanze, verglichen mit den C3-Pflanzen, unter bestimmten klimatischen Bedingungen durch eine besonders hohe Biomasseleistung aus. Sie kann auch im europäischen Raum Wuchshöhen von bis zu vier Metern erreichen und wird deshalb vermehrt als nachwachsender Rohstoff zur energetischen und stofflichen Nutzung angebaut.
Inzwischen findet das schnellwüchsige Chinaschilf wegen seines hohen Brennwertes und seiner günstigen Kohlendioxidbilanz in gewissem Umfang Verwendung als Brennstoff zur Energiegewinnung in Biomasseheizkraftwerken. Ein wesentlicher Vorteil von Riesen-Chinaschilf ist der relativ hohe Trockenmasseertrag pro Hektar in Verbindung mit einem sehr geringen Wasserbedarf pro Einheit produzierter Trockenmasse. Vorteilhaft ist auch die Verlagerung der Nährstoffe aus den Blättern in das Rhizom gegen Ende der Vegetationsperiode. Dadurch ist der Düngungsbedarf dieser Pflanze gegenüber anderen Nutzpflanzen reduziert. Durch die mehrjährige Ernte ohne jährliches Ansäen entfallen auch die jährlichen energieintensiven Bodenaufbereitungsarbeiten, was die Energiebilanz deutlich gegenüber anderen nachwachsenden Rohstoffen, wie z. B. Raps als pflanzlicher Kraftstoff verbessert.
Das Riesen-Chinaschilf wird im Zeitraum Januar bis März geerntet.
View of non-asbestos 1-foot square ceiling tile in room of building with asbestos paper sub-layer between tile and attic space above. The ceiling tiles were each individually nailed in place (not adhered) on a suspended grid of wooden furring strips. Nails were each hidden inside perforation holes. Surface of center tile has been peeled away showing brown, cellulosic, non-asbestos fiber matrix; asbestos paper shows slight yellow aging.
Vintage asbestos product advertised as "Ashtray" and/or "Coaster" being non-flammable and absorbent. Interior disc with ornamental floral design contains percentage of chrysotile asbestos. Product's patent documentation indicates tests conducted on the novel item show that chrysotile absorbs more moisture from beverage container condensation than basic cellulosic paper materials alone. It seems at one time, R & D folks were always trying to find additional uses for asbestos.