{"id":25332,"date":"2023-01-22T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25332"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T21:31:09","slug":"riddle-solved-why-was-roman-concrete-so-durable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25332","title":{"rendered":"Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MIT-RomanConcrete-01-press.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern cement production, they hope to improve the material\u2019s environmental impact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2023\/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106\">Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>TL:DR: quicklime instead of plain lime make for self-healing concrete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1644,1643],"class_list":["post-25332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-concrete","tag-romans","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}