I found this as insulation layer in an oven (Ariston) while trying to replace a thermocouple and it looks like asbestos to me.
Is it Asbestos? Is it dangerous?
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Sign up to join this communityI found this as insulation layer in an oven (Ariston) while trying to replace a thermocouple and it looks like asbestos to me.
Is it Asbestos? Is it dangerous?
Where have you seen asbestos ? When I dug it out of a 50 lb bag in the back of a store room that everybody forgot; 100 % Asbestos was a fluffy grey powder . I mixed it with sodium silicate to make my own muffler cement before auto exhaust were stainless ( which are great). The material in the photo looks exactly as @ trond said ,fiberglass /mineral wool as used in appliances, etc : probably not fiberfrax which is for high temperature and more costly . For home insulation the fiberglas is usually pink.
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and of course you are strongly advising against others digging asbestos out of old bags and playing with it now, correct?
This looks more like fiberglass to me. That doesn't make it safe to handle- fiberglass can give you truly nasty splinters that are next to impossible to extract.