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• Roman concrete
  ...ncrete, although variations in aggregate allowed different arrangements of materials. Further innovative developments in the material, coined the [[Concrete Rev .... The setting and hardening of hydraulic cements derived from hydration of materials and the subsequent chemical and physical interaction of these hydration pro
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• Coade stone
  ...ather Thames, Coade stone sculpture.jpg|thumb|Father Thames, a Coade stone sculpture by [[John Bacon]], in the grounds of [[Ham House]]]] [[Category:Building materials]]
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• Terracotta
  [[File:Hanuman in Terra Cotta.jpg|thumb|A terracotta sculpture of [[Hanuman]] in [[India]]. The reddish color is due to iron oxide in the ...r pipes and surface embellishment in [[building construction]], along with sculpture such as the [[Terracotta Army]] and [[Greek terracotta figurines]]. The ter
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• Stainless steel
  .... |authorlink=M. F. Ashby|coauthors=& David R. H. Jones |title=Engineering Materials 2 |origyear=1986 |edition=with corrections |year=1992 |publisher=Pergamon P ...g]]. This destructive galling can be best avoided by the use of dissimilar materials for the parts forced together, e.g. bronze and stainless steel, or even dif
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• Ferrocement
  ...mposite material which is used in [[construction|building]] or [[sculpting|sculpture]] with [[cement]], [[sand]], [[water]] and [[wire]] or [[mesh]] material— [[Category:Building materials]]
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• Concrete
  ...mposed of [[cement]] (commonly [[Portland cement]]) and other cementitious materials such as [[fly ash]] and [[slag cement]], [[construction aggregate|aggregate Recently, the use of recycled materials as concrete ingredients has been gaining popularity because of increasingly
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• Wood
  ...e sizes or to stand up for themselves. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood c ...the tree when it was grown, may be inferior in [[hardness]], [[Strength of materials|strength]], and toughness to equally sound heartwood from the same log. In
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• Hemoglobin
  ...t must be anaerobic. They may even deal with detoxification of chlorinated materials in a way analogous to heme-containing P450 enzymes and peroxidases. ...005) by [[Julian Voss-Andreae]]. The images show the 5' (1.60 m) tall sculpture right after installation, after 10 days, and after several months of exposu
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• Bath School disaster
  In the south wing the State Police found unexploded materials along with an [[alarm clock]] timed to go off at 9:45 a.m., the time of the ...ls trapped inside the barn were killed. The amount of unused equipment and materials on the farm could have easily paid off the Kehoes' mortgage.{{ref|Ellsworth
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• Butter sculpture
  '''Butter sculpture''' is an [[ancient]] [[Tibetan Buddhism|Tibetan Buddhist]] [[tradition]]. [ |title=Butter Sculpture Tradition Melting Away
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