Woolly Rock

I couldn't find anything to verify this assertion, although there is a connection between asbestos and the phrase 'woolly rock'.

On my own website, QuizMonkey.net, I once wrote (I can't remember when) that one of the six types of asbestos is called crocidolite, and that this name comes from a Greek term that can be translated as 'woolly rock'. I have no idea where I got this information from, but on Google Books I did find a book entitled Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, edited by Ken O'Byrne and Valerie W. Rusch. Here I read that "Hausman, a German geologist, coined the name crocidolite in 1831 from the Greek krokis (woolly) and lithos (rock)."

So one of the six types of asbestos has a name that's derived from the Greek words for 'woolly' and 'rock'. But that's not the same as saying that "asbestos is sometimes known as woolly rock".