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  2. Compressed earth block - Wikipedia

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    A compressed earth block (CEB), also known as a pressed earth block or a compressed soil block, is a building material made primarily from an appropriate mix of fairly dry inorganic subsoil, non-expansive clay, sand, and aggregate. Forming compressed earth blocks requires dampening, mechanically pressing at high pressure, and then drying the ...

  3. List of artesian wells in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Olympia Brewery, Olympia, Washington (see Olympia Brewing Company#Use of artesian water) Polk Theater well, Lakeland, Florida; possibly used in the loop of the first air conditioning system in America; Pryor Avenue Iron Well, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Southwestern Lunatic Asylum–Hot Wells, San Antonio, Texas; Sulphur Springs, Tampa, Florida

  4. Artesian Well Park - Wikipedia

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    Salt Lake City invested $79,450 (equivalent to $333,537 in 2023) to create the park and configure the water to flow out of a concrete casing with spigots. The well casing and plumbing were upgraded four years later. [7] When initially opened, the park was simply called "City Well Park" but was renamed "Artesian Well Park" in 1987, following a ...

  5. Autoclaved aerated concrete - Wikipedia

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    Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) is a lightweight, precast, cellular concrete building material, eco-friendly, [1] suitable for producing concrete-like blocks. It is composed of quartz sand , calcined gypsum , lime , portland cement , water and aluminium powder .

  6. Well - Wikipedia

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    Man cleaning a well in Yaoundé, Cameroon Hand pump to pump water from a well in a village near Chennai in India, where the well water might be polluted by nearby pit latrines. Shallow pumping wells can often supply drinking water at a very low cost. However, impurities from the surface easily reach shallow sources, which leads to a greater ...

  7. Well Number 5 - Wikipedia

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    Well Number 5, also called 164th Street Artesian Well, is an artesian well in North Lynnwood, Washington at Swamp Creek. The well puts out between 10–50 US gallons (38–189 L; 8.3–41.6 imp gal) per minute. [a] It is one of ten artesian wells that originally supplied the Alderwood area in the 1950s. [4]

  8. Home Depot - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company The Home Depot, Inc. An aerial view of a Home Depot in Onalaska, Wisconsin Company type Public Traded as NYSE: HD DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Retail (home improvement) Founded February 6 ...

  9. Tetrapod (structure) - Wikipedia

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    A tetrapod is a form of wave-dissipating concrete block used to prevent erosion caused by weather and longshore drift, primarily to enforce coastal structures such as seawalls and breakwaters. Tetrapods are made of concrete , and use a tetrahedral shape to dissipate the force of incoming waves by allowing water to flow around rather than ...