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fossil cork
7. fossil cork, mountain-cork, rock-cork: names for a very light variety of asbestos.
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mountain-cork1859
rock-cork1859
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1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 316 Rock-Cork, a variety of asbestus whose fine fibres are so interlaced and matted as to give it the texture and lightness of cork..Often known as ‘mountain-cork’.
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 170 Fossil-Cork.
1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 234 Mountain Leather is a kind [of asbestos] in thin flexible sheets, made of interlaced fibres; and mountain cork the same in thicker pieces.
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fossil cork
fossil cork n. [after French liège fossile (1764 or earlier)] Obsolete a variety of asbestos occurring in thick, light, flexible blocks; mountain cork.
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1771 J. Keir in tr. P. J. Macquer Dict. Chem. I. 179/2 (note) Cork (Fossil), Suber montanum. This name is given to a stone which is a species of amianthus, consisting of flexible fibres loosely interwoven, and somewhat resembling vegetable cork.
1818 J. Souter Bk. Eng. Trades (new ed.) 126 Fossil-cork, is the name given to a kind of stone, which is the lightest of all stones.
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