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2. Translucent concrete - Wikipedia

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   Translucent concrete (also: light-transmitting concrete) is a concrete based building material with light-transmissive properties due to embedded light optical elements — usually optical fibers. Light is conducted through the stone from one end to the other. Therefore, the fibers have to go through the whole object.

3. Quikrete to take Summit Materials private in deal valued at ...

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   Privately held Quikrete approached Summit with an acquisition offer in October, Reuters had reported. ... The concrete maker's $52.50 per share offer represents an about 29.2% premium to Summit's ...

4. Decorative concrete - Wikipedia

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   Stamped concrete in various patterns, highlighted with acid stain. Decorative concrete is the use of concrete as not simply a utilitarian medium for construction but as an aesthetic enhancement to a structure, while still serving its function as an integral part of the building itself such as floors, walls, driveways, and patios.

5. Ready-mix concrete - Wikipedia

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   Concrete has a limited lifespan between batching / mixing and curing. This means that ready-mixed concrete should be placed within 30 to 45 minutes of the batching process to hold slump and mix design specifications in the US, [15] though in the UK, environmental and material factors, plus in-transit mixing, allow for up two hours to elapse. [16]

6. Rinker Group - Wikipedia

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   Rinker Materials Corporation of West Palm Beach produces several concrete, aggregate, and other heavy building products similar to the Australian product line in several US states, notably including Florida and Arizona. In Florida, for instance, it operated under the name "Florida Materials", and ran a substantial retail network for these ...

7. Poly(methyl methacrylate) - Wikipedia

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   Many other products (for example, guitars) are sometimes made with acrylic glass to make the commonly opaque objects translucent. Perspex has been used as a surface to paint on, for example by Salvador Dalí. Diasec is a process which uses acrylic glass as a substitute for normal glass in picture frames.