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  2. Lime (material) - Wikipedia

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    The word lime originates with its earliest use as building mortar and has the sense of sticking or adhering. [3] These materials are still used in large quantities as building and engineering materials (including limestone products, cement, concrete, and mortar), as chemical feedstocks, for sugar refining, and other uses. Lime industries and ...

  3. Lime mortar - Wikipedia

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    Lime comes from Old English lim ('sticky substance, birdlime, mortar, cement, gluten'), and is related to Latin limus ('slime, mud, mire'), and linere ('to smear'). [7] Mortar is a mixture with cement and comes from Old French mortier ('builder's mortar, plaster; bowl for mixing') in the late 13th century and Latin mortarium ('mortar'). [7]

  4. Hempcrete - Wikipedia

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    Hempcrete is a construction building material that uses hemp shives, aggregate, water, and a type of binder to act as non-bearing walls, insulators, finishing plasters, and blocks. The material has low mechanical properties and low thermal conductivity, making it ideal for insulation material.

  5. Hydraulic lime - Wikipedia

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    Hydraulic lime is a useful building material for the following reasons: It has a low elastic modulus. There is no need for expansion (movement) joints. It allows buildings to "breathe", and does not trap moisture in the walls. It has a lower firing temperature than Portland cement, and thus manufactured consuming less energy.

  6. Tabby concrete - Wikipedia

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    Limestone to make building lime was not locally available to early settlers, so lime was imported or made from oyster shells. Shell middens along the coast were a supply of shells to make tabby, which diffused from two primary centers or hearths: one at Saint Augustine, Florida, and the other at Beaufort, South Carolina.

  7. Lime plaster - Wikipedia

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    Qadad lime plaster is waterproof and used for interiors and exteriors; Some of the earliest known examples of lime used for building purposes are in ancient Egyptian buildings (primarily monuments). Some of these edifices are found in the chambers of the pyramids, and date to between the Ninth and Tenth Dynasties (~2000 BC). They are still hard ...

  8. Mortar (masonry) - Wikipedia

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    It was made popular during the late nineteenth century, and had by 1930 became more popular than lime mortar as construction material. The advantages of Portland cement is that it sets hard and quickly, allowing a faster pace of construction. Furthermore, fewer skilled workers are required in building a structure with Portland cement.

  9. List of types of limestone - Wikipedia

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    Collyweston stone slate – Traditional limestone roofing material of central England (not a "true slate"; thin-bedded limestone) Cotham Marble – Limestone variety from Great Britain (not a "true marble"; stromatolitic limestone) Cotswold stone – oolitic limestone used for building and roofing in the Cotswolds

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