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Comments on Self-Healing Concrete Uses Bacteria For Healing
Is it possible that bacteria in buildings could play the role of your body's osteoblast cells - repairing their minor fractures? (Read
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| "Beware of buildings with cancer!
" ( 9/5/2010 12:55:21 AM) |
| "That's a pretty good comment; old buildings and other infrastructure (I'm thinking about bridges) do get a kind of "cancer" that eats them up, often starting as rust on the rebars inside the concrete. " (Bill Christensen 9/5/2010 2:45:26 PM) |
| "I just googled 'concrete cancer' and got some hits; check this out:
'Concrete Cancer, often identified by flaking concrete (concrete spalling) or rust stains which originate deep within the concrete is a serious problem. Often people mistake the signs for weathering caused by the elements, but whilst this may have a part in exacerbating the problem, the real problem lies within the concrete itself.
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| "Late in the new Battlestar Galactica they brought some "stuff" from the the Basestar to fix some of the cracks in Galatica." (Bill Brown 9/10/2010 12:28:59 PM) |
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