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This Ancient Construction Site in the Ruins of Pompeii Is Revealing New Secrets About the 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Roman Concrete

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete

The only snag was that this didn’t match the recipe as described in historical texts. Now the same team is back with a fresh ...
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Decarbonizing Concrete: What the Contractor Can Do

Concrete Contractor connected with interim CEO Kristal Kaye and Jason Campbell, commercial director for North America, for ...
Live Science on MSN

'This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture': Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...

Scientists discover secrets of ancient Roman concrete at Pompeii

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...
ZME Science on MSN

Scientists Just Created a Biological Concrete that Heals Itself and Is Carbon Negative

Enzymes are essentially biological catalysts. They are proteins that speed up chemical reactions in the body that would ...

Ancient Construction Site at Pompeii Sheds Light on Rome’s Miraculous Self-Healing Cement

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...
New Scientist on MSN

Pompeii building site reveals how the Romans made concrete

Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists unique insights into ...

A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...
Professional Builder

The ABCs of Concrete in Residential Construction

Concrete is the unsung hero of residential construction. From driveways and sidewalks to patios and, most importantly, ...

Pompeii’s ruins challenge Rome’s famous concrete recipe

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...