And how modern day engineers ended up applying this to a nuclear power plant. 🤓 engineering
We found that cement hydrates and rock-forming minerals reacted in a way similar to what happens in Roman concrete, significantly increasing the strength of the nuclear plant walls," said Nagoya University environmental engineerThe way Roman concrete has been able
to survive millennia is thanks to seawater dissolving the volcanic ash within its mixture, which leads to the formation of aluminous tobermorite. However, as the study pointed out, it's incredibly tricky mixing in aluminous tobermorite directly into current concrete.
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