I packed the earth into a melanin box. I covered the dirt with linoleum and then made DIY white concrete by mixing white Portland cement with washed sand. It's pretty easy to wash sand in a mixing ...

Sand is the most abundant ingredient in the mix. The powdered cement and lime are the glue that holds the sand together and ...

Some 4,000 people worked there at its height and associated plants produced Portland cement, wire ... Steel for steamships can be a different alloy mix than steel for washing machines.

The state’s top insurance regulator’s recent suggestion that Florida’s most popular roofing might go the way of copper piping ...

Either way, you want to use a masonry mortar mix on this. This is a combination of Portland cement, lime, and sand, and should not to be confused with cement or concrete. I would defer to our ...

Researchers transformed 2D kaolinite into 3D amorphous cement using chemical reactions in an alkaline medium. This breakthrough creates a sustainable, CO2-free alternative to traditional cement, ...

Concrete roof tiles are made by mixing Portland cement, water and sand in varying proportions. Installing them presents a challenge, however. Pate says that the same, 3,000-square foot house would ...

Wil Srubar hopes to disrupt this cycle with a nature-inspired concrete alternative that can be produced without fossil fuels ...