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The Han identity has been the cement which has held this country together.
And if we were able to arrange spaces where we could come across works where we would be told, use these works of art to cement these ideas in your mind, we would get a lot more out of art.
In Italy, they have developed a technique using sorel cement.
Sorel cement was originally invented in 1867, and it's the beautiful chemical marriage of magnesium oxide and local sand, which they can now use to print solid stone walls.
The first concrete blocks were manufactured in 1868 with a very simple idea: modules made of cement of a fixed measurement that fit together.
The cement floor underneath me had a sticky film on it that made a ripping sound, like tape being pulled off a box, every time I moved my foot.
She moved to the United States, where she met my grandfather, who was a cement hauler, and they had nine children.
If we built a 20-story building out of cement and concrete, the process would result in the manufacturing of that cement and 1,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
So bees fly to some plants and they scrape these very, very sticky resins off the leaves, and they take them back to the nest where they cement them into the nest architecture where we call it propolis.
Very quickly, they found that if you put cement in the bone of the patient before you put the metal shaft in, it actually lasted a lot longer, and most patients would never have to be re-operated on in their lifetime.
It feels like someone's pouring cement on you or something.
I mean the world where advanced building materials means cement roofing tiles that are made by hand, and where, when you work 10 hours a day, you're still only earning 60 dollars in a month.
So far, we've looked for the poorest people in the poorest villages, and in this part of the world, they're the ones living in homes made of mud and thatch, not cement and iron.
So be it the force of self construction, the force of common sense, or the force of nature, all these forces need to be translated into form, and what that form is modeling and shaping is not cement, bricks, or wood.
We partnered with TripAdvisor and created a cement hall in the middle of a village and invited so many other organizations to work over there.
I spent that night in a cold cement floor in the jail, and that got me thinking.
Kiko was in the back of a cement storefront in western Massachusetts.
Each project, we use materials and designs that help encourage life; a long-lasting pH-neutral cement provides a stable and permanent platform.
And so when you go through that growth, you have to sort of cement your cultural values and talk about them all of the time.
Concrete is a combination of coarse stone and sand particles, called aggregates, that mix with cement, a powdered blend of clay and limestone.
When water gets added to this mix, the cement forms a paste and coats the aggregates, quickly hardening through a chemical reaction called hydration.
While people have been using a variety of recipes to produce cement for over 4,000 years, concrete itself has a surprisingly short lifespan.
The composite combines titanium dioxide with cement.
The same thing that's always done in these cases: changes are made looking forward; children are taught the new rules, those of us who don't want to adapt can write the way we're used to writing, and hopefully, time will cement the new rules in place.
And people always ask me if I have to add cement to the mud, and the answer is no.
If I had designed the school in cement and steel, this money would have been exported and lost for those families.
Within only a couple of years, China has consumed more cement than the United States in the entire 20th century.
I knew we weren't able to get cement, aggregate and sand to rebuild what the war destroyed.
What about using glass powder to replace part of the cement?
And when they have more money they cement their streets, and they put in sewers and good water pipes, and stuff like that.
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