There is at present uncertainty regarding the hazard to health presented by crocidolite. 目前,青石棉对健康的危害尚不清楚。
The Air Pollution Control Ordinance bans the import and sale of the more potentially dangerous types of asbestos, namely amosite and crocidolite, from May1996. 空气污染管制条例》由一九九六年五月起禁止进口和售卖较具潜在危险的石棉产品如铁石棉及青石棉。
Crocidolite \Cro*cid"o*lite\ (kr?-s?d"?-l?t), n. [Gr. kroky`s nap on cloth + -lite.] (Min.) A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also {blue asbestus}. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown {tiger-eye} of the jewelers.