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The Cementation Company is a British civil engineering and construction business. It presently a part of the Swedish construction and development company Skanska . Established as the Francois Cementation Company in 1910, the company specialised in a recently- patented high pressure grouting technique.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Cementation may refer to: Cementation (biology) , the process whereby some sessile bivalve mollusks (and some other shelled invertebrates) attach themselves permanently to a hard substrate Cementation (geology) , the process of deposition of dissolved mineral components in the interstices of sediments
Lithification (from the Ancient Greek word lithos meaning 'rock' and the Latin-derived suffix -ific) is the process in which sediments compact under pressure, expel connate fluids, and gradually become solid rock.
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Whether the initial cementation was concentric or pervasive, there is considerable evidence that it occurred quickly and at shallow depth of burial. [45] [46] [47] [38] In many cases, there is clear evidence that the initial concretion formed around some kind of organic nucleus. [48] The origin of the carbonate-rich septaria is still debated.
A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman who was set on fire and killed on a New York City subway train, police said. The suspect -- identified by police on Monday ...
A 33-year-old man was charged Monday for allegedly setting on fire and killing a woman on a New York subway train in what authorities called a “brutal murder” and an example of “depraved ...