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An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia. During the hot mixing process, the lime clasts develop a characteristically brittle nanoparticulate architecture, creating an easily fractured and reactive calcium source, which, as the team proposed, could provide a critical self-healing functionality. As soon as tiny cracks start… […]
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Ancient Roman concrete could self-heal thanks to “hot mixing” with quicklime
January 7th, 2023 
Awake Goy 
Posted in Jewish News 
Tags: ancient, concrete, could, mixing, quicklime, roman, thanks 
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