Asbestos-containing pottery shards collected in the northeast of Corsica (Cap Corse) and
dating from the 19th century, or earlier, have been analyzed by SEM-EDS, XRPD, FTIR and Raman microspectroscopy. Blue (crocidolite) and white (chrysotile) asbestos fiber bundles are observed in cross-sections. Most of the asbestos is partly or totally dehydroxylated, and some transformation to forsterite is observed to occur, indicative of a firing above 800 C. Examination of freshly fractured pieces shows a nonbrittle fracture with fiber pull-out, consistent with ...
... century, whereas asbestos-fiber-reinforced
pottery was actually produced centuries before in the north part of Corsica (Cap Corse).
The deliberate use of asbestos or similar minerals (serpentines) has been noted since the Middle
Ages, but some Neolithic pottery already contained asbestos. Chiva and Ojalvo ...
... in bread ovens or in simple pits [7]. Historical records indicate that asbestos-rich pottery was used by
the Romans for cremation and that asbestos textiles were made. Hulthćn [9] reported that artefacts
very rich in asbestos (50% to 90% volume) have been made in Finland and North Scandinavia from ...
... For instance, the Si-O-Si bridge mode shifts from ca. 658 cm”-! in amosite (“brown asbestos”,
used in cement and pipe insulation [42]) or 664 cm ! in crocidolite (blue asbestos) to 602 cm_! n
chrysotile (white asbestos) [22,25,26]. The differentiation from the infrared spectrum is less clear-cut
due ...
Philippe Colomban, Aleksandar Kremenović. "Asbestos-Based Pottery from Corsica: The First Fiber-Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composite" in Materials, MDPI AG (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13163597
