Technical words

Wanting to be an interpreter, I have to know all sorts of technical terms.... Yet it is strange to think that words such as asbestos, that I know in French, are still unknown to me (at least some of those words) in English...

Well anyway, so I looked up "Asbestos" on Google, to see what explanation I would find, and I got the word "Mesothelioma" as the first link/result.

Then I looked it up for more precise info, and I now have a definition!

The generic name "asbestos" belongs to a group of minerals called "asbestiform" minerals. Asbestos is a fibrous material which is mined from serpentine rock. Basically, rock was mined and crushed. When the rock was crushed, fibrous stands of asbestos were extracted from the rock. The strands were put in bags and shipped to manufacturing facilities where the asbestos was used as an ingredient in insulation and other materials. The three most commonly used forms of asbestos in product manufacturing were chrysotile, amosite and crocidolite.

as for mesothelioma, it is a malignant tumor of the covering of the lung or the lining of the pleural and abdominal cavities, often associated with exposure to asbestos. (i.e. form of asbestos cancer)

well, now i have to learn it by heart O.O *dies* imagine me translating that type of stuff into french lol XD <.<