Lime-ash floors were an economic form of floor construction from the 15th century to the 19th century, for upper floors in parts of England where limestone...
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content such as dolomitic or magnesium lime. Uses include lime mortar, lime plaster, lime render, lime-ash floors, tabby concrete, whitewash, silicate mineral...
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Calcium oxide (redirect from Quick lime)
humans used limestone-based plaster for flooring and other uses. Such Lime-ash floor remained in use until the late nineteenth century. Chemical or power...
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hydraulic lime. In ancient times, Roman lime plaster incorporated pozzolanic volcanic ash; in modern times, fly ash is preferred. Non-hydraulic lime plaster...
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'hydraulic lime' (HL), as defined European Norm 459 (EN-459), "Consists of lime and other materials such as Portland cement, blast furnace slag, fly ash, limestone...
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Malt house (section Floor malting)
a single vessel with heavy beams and chamfered purlins supporting a lime-ash floor. Warminster Maltings in Wiltshire, 18th-century, rebuilt 1879. Group...
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features include a stunning example of a very large, well preserved lime ash floor in the main hall, evidence of a significantly raised (c1m) bay also...
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on floors and in plaster for coating walls. This use of plaster may in turn have led to the development of proto-pottery, made from lime and ash. In...
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launder bed linen, serve as cooks and stewards, calcine and slake lime, build a lime-ash floor, churn, press, and salt butter; sanitize the dairy, plait rushes...
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Coal combustion products (redirect from Fly ash)
ash hardens and gets stronger over time. Class C fly ash generally contains more than 20% lime (CaO). Unlike Class F, self-cementing Class C fly ash does...
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hydraulic cement was found by ancient Romans who used volcanic ash (pozzolana) with added lime (calcium oxide). Non-hydraulic cement (less common) does not...
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chatty little alcoves, and the more open front bar still has an ancient lime-ash floor." The pub serves various ales and is also noted for its gastronomy....
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densely compacted for building the foundation under a pavement. Lime Addition to asphalt – Lime may be added to the cold feed of an asphalt plant to strengthen...
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Floor sanding is the process of removing the top surfaces of a wooden floor by sanding with abrasive materials. A variety of floor materials can be sanded...
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volcanic ash (pozzolana), and hydrated lime. Roman concrete was superior to other concrete recipes (for example, those consisting of only sand and lime) used...
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Egyptian and later Roman eras, builders discovered that adding volcanic ash to lime allowed the mix to set underwater. They discovered the pozzolanic reaction...
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Parquet (redirect from Parquet floor)
1693. Woods contrasting in color and grain, such as oak, walnut, cherry, lime, pine, maple etc. are sometimes employed, and in the more expensive kinds...
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Japanese tea utensils (section Ash)
sculpted ash in a brazier. It is a beautiful, smooth white ash produced by burning wisteria bean pods. Fukusabai (ふくさ灰, lit. 'silky ash') – a dry ash specially...
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Plasterwork (section Lime plastering)
Stucco" consisting of lime, sand, bone ash and lime-water (Dr Bryan Higgins, 1779). Various experiments mixing different limes with volcanic earths took...
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Details" (Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, 2005) "Devil Town" (The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, 2004, and Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998–2005)...
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inner lip and tongue. Nas: tobacco, ash, cotton or sesame oil, water, and sometimes gum. Naswar: tobacco, slaked lime, indigo, cardamom, oil, menthol, water...
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type of concrete made by burning oyster shells to create lime, then mixing it with water, sand, ash and broken oyster shells. Tabby was used by early Spanish...
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12 cm thick air gap and 12 cm thick 'Fal-G' [proprietary blend of fly ash (Fa), lime (L) and gypsum (G)] block brick, and has a U-value of .221 W/m2K. The...
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Mount Mazama (section Mazama Ash)
contain more phenocrysts. Mazama Ash also has more soda, yttrium, ytterbium, and zirconium, and less silica and lime than eruptive products from Glacier...
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internal timber framing survives intact, as does the original lime ash plaster of the attic floor. By the mid-20th century, the building was in poor repair...
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The cake was roasted in a vessel by furnace and lime and coal to produce sodium carbonate (soda ash) that was immersed in water for 12 hours. The resultant...
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Soap (redirect from Wood-ash soap)
oils. In ancient times, lubricating greases were made by the addition of lime to olive oil, which would produce calcium soaps. Metal soaps are also included...
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hand-made out of coarse clay. Pale-gray pots made of fine clay mixed with lime and mica were also excavated. The pottery from the later Neolithic period...
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built or renovated in the 1970s. A version known as fly ash bricks, manufactured using fly ash, lime, and gypsum (known as the FaL-G process) are common in...
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was found that the top floor collapsed following the eruption while the bottom floor was buried by the ash. The middle floor can be visited today. The...
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