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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 mortar or torching[1][2] is a masonry mortar composed of lime and an aggregate such as sand, mixed with water. It is one of the oldest known types of mortar, used in ancient Rome and Greece, when it largely replaced the clay and gypsum mortars common to ancient Egyptian construction. [3]

  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. Lime plaster - Wikipedia

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    Lime plaster is a type of plaster composed of sand, water, and lime, usually non-hydraulic hydrated lime (also known as slaked lime, high calcium lime or air lime). Ancient lime plaster often contained horse hair for reinforcement and pozzolan additives to reduce the working time. Traditional non-hydraulic hydrated lime only sets through ...

  6. 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.

  7. Tabby concrete - Wikipedia

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    Tabby is a type of concrete made by burning oyster shells to create lime, then mixing it with water, sand, ash and broken oyster shells. [1] Tabby was used by early Spanish settlers in present-day Florida, then by British colonists primarily in coastal South Carolina and Georgia. [1] It is a man-made analogue of coquina, a naturally-occurring ...

  8. Mortar (masonry) - Wikipedia

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    Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colours or patterns to masonry walls. In its broadest sense, mortar includes pitch, asphalt, and soft mud or clay ...

  9. Roman concrete - Wikipedia

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    Roman concrete, like any concrete, consists of an aggregate and hydraulic mortar, a binder mixed with water that hardens over time. The composition of the aggregate varied, and included pieces of rock, ceramic tile, lime clasts, and brick rubble from the remains of previously demolished buildings. In Rome, readily available tuff was often used ...

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