This week in Akron history, canal commission awarded contracts, workers installed pipes, motorists bought maps and firefighters opened a new station.

You may not have ever given much thought to how bricklayer’s mortar is made. Standard mortar is a combination of three ingredients: sand; powdered Portland cement, lime and some other ingredients; and ...

A truckload of lime from Tamil Nadu, a construction technique used by the Nubians of Africa, and a bright young talent. This ...

Mortars to last millennia Archaeologists are unlocking the secrets of Maya lime plasters and mortars Organic additives produced plasters with similar properties to sea urchin spines, mollusk shells.

The modern version of hydraulic cement—the sort that hardens when mixed with water and allowed to dry—dates back to the early 19th century.

Five cement and lime giants have raised £60m to advance plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture scheme to ...

Prepare the dressing. Pound together garlic, chilies, palm sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, and tamarind concentrate to make a ...

What Is Stucco? Stucco is a cement-type mixture made of Portland cement, lime, sand and water. It is a thin finish coat that goes on the outermost layer of residential and commercial constructions.

In other words, these small lime-clast chunks can react with water, post-mixing, to recrystallize as calcium carbonate, and fill cracks while reacting with the ash for further strength.

After a decade in the works, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles, have successfully devised a way to produce cement with 98% less CO2 emissions than traditional methods.

They also found references to Mayan lime mortar being made with “some sort of water coming from a tree bark,” from a text written by a bishop living in the 16th century.