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Cob: Making Cements with Plant Extracts

Mike Swink mswink at mindspring.com
Sat Feb 3 15:45:44 CST 2001


Making Cements with Plant Extracts (1981/1982)
http://www.geopolymer.org/formulaire.html

The above PDF file is free if you give them your name.
It is not what I think people who are doing cob homes would want but there may be some other applications.



I would like to have more info on the following:

Arlie Wrote:
I just saw a bit on TV where, on the Great Wall in China, some grout holding
bricks together was still doing it's thing whereas the brick had eroded
away. An analysis of the grout revealed it was made from sand, lime and rice
flour.

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The above PDF file is free if you give them your 
name.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is not what I think people who are doing cob 
homes would want but there may be some other applications.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to have more info on the 
following:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Arlie Wrote:</DIV>
<DIV>I just saw a bit on TV where, on the Great Wall in China, some grout 
holding<BR>bricks together was still doing it's thing whereas the brick had 
eroded<BR>away. An analysis of the grout revealed it was made from sand, lime 
and rice<BR>flour.<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>