I found this as insulation layer in an oven (Ariston) while trying to replace a thermocouple and it looks like asbestos to me.
Is it Asbestos? Is it dangerous?
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No. That looks like polyisocyanurate:
Asbestos looks like any of these, depending on which form was used in what kind of location:
AFAIR, asbestos mastic is much more likely with tile (which may itself contain asbestos) - I would not expect it under carpet, other than as a remnant of a prior tile job (no sign of that here.) And, as you have noted, it doesn't look like it.
While you could engage full paranoia (as the folks that make money from it like) and have it tested, you can probably remove it without too much concern, and if it's "gummy" you might want to take a "solvent and wipe up" approach anyway, which would minimize anything getting in the air.
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Where have you seen asbestos ? When I dug it out of a 50 lb bag in the back of a store room that everybody forgot; 100 % Asbestos was a fluffy grey powder . I mixed it with sodium silicate to make my own muffler cement before auto exhaust were stainless ( which are great). The material in the photo looks exactly as @ trond said ,fiberglass /mineral wool as used in appliances, etc : probably not fiberfrax which is for high temperature and more costly . For home insulation the fiberglas is usually pink.