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Concrete
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To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now more than 80 tonnes of concrete on this planet for every person alive – around 650 gigatonnes in total. To put that slightly meaningless number into perspective, it is considerably more than the combined weight of every single living thing on the planet: every cow, every tree, every human, plant, animal
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― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
― Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk
without having feet
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― The Rose That Grew From Concrete
― The Rose That Grew From Concrete
