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Rapidly And Accurately Determining Refractive Indices Of Asbestos Fibers By Using Dispersion Staining Method A Standard Operation Procedure For Bulk Asbestos Analysis By Polarized Light Microscopy Shu-Chun Su, Ph.D. Rev. 2010-07-11  For those laboratories that have received earlier versions of this paper, please replace them with this updated version. A much condensed version of this paper was published in 2003: A rapid and accurate procedure for the determination of refractive indices of asbestos minerals. American Mineralogist, 88, 1979-1982. If anyone has any questions or suggestions concerning this procedure or need the electronic files (Word or PDF format), please contact me at shuchunsu@. This version has corrected an error with the two crocidolite tables (Tables 7 and 8): α and γ tables were transposed in older versions although the resultant differences between the RIs obtained from the previous tables and current tables are in most cases 0.002, which is well within the expected experimental errors resulted from the inherited errors in estimating the matching wavelengths. In fact, because the dispersion coefficients of between α (1.161) and γ (1.174) are so negligible that they were combined into a single table in the above American Mineralogist paper. The same is true for chrysotile and amosite. Shu-Chun Su, Ph.D. NVLAP Technical Expert Bulk and Airborne Asbestos Analysis Programs  Introduction Refractive index (RI) is the most important optical properties of non-opaque minerals. It is also the leading diagnostic optical property used to identify asbestos components in bulk insulation or building materials by polarized light microscopy (PLM) using oil immersion method (Perkins and Harvey, 1993). Most environmental laboratories in the United States participate in the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce. NVLAP requires the