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Date: | Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:25:21 -0500 |
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Lime is generally unsuitable for immersion in any type of water for several
reasons. First, it is slightly soluble in water and will erode. Second, it
takes a long time to carbonate and cannot withstand immersion in an
uncarbonated condition, nor can it carbonate in an immersed condition.
Natural cement without lime was used in US coastal fortifications after 1825
in areas which were subject to immersion. In non-immersion construction, some
lime was added to natural cement to reduce cost. Presumably the natural cement
acts as a pozzolan in these mixtures.
Michael P. Edison
The Second American Natural Cement Conference
www.naturalcement.org
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Subject: [BP] Re Salt with lime
> Better minds can respond to this query ,but lime mortar absorbs water
> then at a certain point sheds it , salts are crystals that "
> bloom"with the wet dry process prior to Portland ,fort work was
> "capped " with Natural Cement (see conference with Mike Edison) this
> according to documentation found in the Army Corps of Engineers 1898
> Why? because of its strength and ability to shed water
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