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  2. Macadam - Wikipedia

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    Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam c. 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly. A binding layer of stone dust (crushed stone from the original material) may form; it may also, after rolling, be covered with a cement or bituminous binder to ...

  3. Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    The private cars/jeeps are permitted inside the sanctuary. The roads are narrow and made by water bound macadam (WBM), so they are closed in rainy season. [8] The vehicles are permitted up to the Shivrai sada, which is a large open ground with a water pond in the center. The wild animals visit the pond for water during sunrise and sunset.

  4. John Loudon McAdam - Wikipedia

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    John Loudon McAdam, 1830, National Gallery, London. John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756 [1] – 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed particle size and predetermined structure, that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks.

  5. Talk:Macadam - Wikipedia

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    The road shown in the picture looks to be surfaced with "crusher fines" [1] while true macadam roads are covered with a layer of tessellated (nested and interlocked together by pressure and vibration) homogeneous rock, leaving voids which drain water into the base. The result looks something like this: PXL_20211005_212244099.jpg.

  6. Cuddalore - Wikipedia

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    Before the English took control, Cuddalore (anglicised) was called கூடலூர், Kūṭalūr meaning confluence in Tamil. [1] It is situated on the backwater formed by the confluent estuaries of the rivers viz., Ponnaiyar (South Pennar river flowing through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu), Kedilam, Uppanar and Paravanar.

  7. Tarmacadam - Wikipedia

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    Tarmacadam is a concrete road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902. It is a more durable and dust-free enhancement of simple compacted stone macadam surfaces invented by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam in the early 19th century.

  8. Effective porosity - Wikipedia

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    “Clay surfaces and interlayers” comprise electrochemically bound water (clay-bound water or CBW) which varies in volume according to the clay-type, and the salinity of the formation water (see the Attachments section). The most common definition of effective porosity for sandstones excludes CBW as part of the porosity, whereas CBW is ...

  9. Bitumen - Wikipedia

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    In 1914, Claridge's Company entered into a joint venture to produce tar-bound macadam, [63] with materials manufactured through a subsidiary company called Clarmac Roads Ltd. [64] Two products resulted, namely Clarmac, and Clarphalte, with the former being manufactured by Clarmac Roads and the latter by Claridge's Patent Asphalte Co., although ...