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Asbestos Cut System

A term in the non-metallic braiding for glass yarns used in a system for measurement. For example, a size 450 1/0 glass yarn would be interpreted as follows: “450” refers to strand count and indicates approximate bare glass yardage per pound in hundreds. “1/0” refers to the number of piles in continuous filament yarn.

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