Old heater/stir plates - is it likely they contain asbestos?

Do any of you have experience with disposing of old hearter/stir plates?

 

Do you know if they contained asbestos?

 

Thanks,

-Russ

 

Russell Vernon, Ph.D. 
UC System-wide Field Safety Working Group Chair
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