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  • Thumbnail for Hydraulic lime
    two basic types of hydraulic limes: Natural hydraulic lime (NHL) is produced by heating (calcining) limestone that naturally contains clay and other impurities:...
    8 KB (1,076 words) - 07:24, 23 August 2024
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    Fracking (redirect from Hydraulic fracture)
    Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of...
    153 KB (15,859 words) - 19:54, 14 August 2024
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    Cement (redirect from Hydraulic cement)
    hydraulic or the less common non-hydraulic, depending on the ability of the cement to set in the presence of water (see hydraulic and non-hydraulic lime...
    81 KB (9,428 words) - 01:49, 12 August 2024
  • A hydraulic empire, also known as a hydraulic despotism, hydraulic society, hydraulic civilization, or water monopoly empire, is a social or government...
    10 KB (1,310 words) - 20:54, 13 June 2024
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    Lime (material) (category Limestone)
    a limestone which naturally contains some clay. Artificial hydraulic lime is made by adding forms of silica or alumina such as clay to the limestone during...
    19 KB (2,351 words) - 16:22, 31 May 2024
  • cuts and quarries. The Manlius Limestone was first noted by Vanuxem (1840, p. 372) as a "waterlime" (hydraulic limestone) near Manlius, New York. The Manlius...
    5 KB (445 words) - 12:09, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hydraulic engineering
    Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage. One...
    22 KB (2,720 words) - 21:00, 16 August 2024
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    pozzolan to non-hydraulic lime. Non-hydraulic lime is produced from a high purity source of calcium carbonate such as chalk, limestone, or oyster shells...
    30 KB (4,286 words) - 13:53, 26 July 2024
  • In science and engineering, hydraulic conductivity (K, in SI units of meters per second), is a property of porous materials, soils and rocks, that describes...
    23 KB (2,968 words) - 04:05, 15 August 2024
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    enduring stucco (kalk), especially in the Maya region, where a type of hydraulic limestone cement or concrete was also used. In the case of the common houses...
    32 KB (3,451 words) - 01:04, 19 January 2024
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    Portland cement (category Limestone)
    developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the early 19th century by Joseph Aspdin, and is usually made from limestone. It is a fine powder, produced...
    44 KB (5,057 words) - 03:02, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Limestone Generating Station
    Limestone Generating Station is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River approximately 750 kilometres (470 mi) north of Winnipeg near...
    4 KB (244 words) - 16:18, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fracking proppants
    treated sand or man-made ceramic materials, designed to keep an induced hydraulic fracture open, during or following a fracturing treatment, most commonly...
    11 KB (1,274 words) - 19:00, 27 April 2024
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    gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured. The output from these...
    227 KB (24,980 words) - 21:40, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lime plaster
    plaster is a type of plaster composed of sand, water, and lime, usually non-hydraulic hydrated lime (also known as slaked lime, high calcium lime or air lime)...
    18 KB (2,213 words) - 13:50, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portland stone
    limestone. The term, "Portland cement", was coined by Joseph Aspdin who in 1824 patented a hydraulic binder created by burning a mixture of limestone...
    25 KB (3,005 words) - 15:07, 27 May 2024
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    Aquifer (category Hydraulic engineering)
    Aquitards are composed of layers of either clay or non-porous rock with low hydraulic conductivity. Groundwater can be found at nearly every point in the Earth's...
    33 KB (4,103 words) - 16:54, 13 July 2024
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    Cement clinker (category Limestone)
    heating at high temperature clays and limestone. The major raw material for the clinker-making is usually limestone mixed with a second material containing...
    9 KB (1,109 words) - 21:48, 10 July 2024
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    infiltrates the limestone bedrock. After water enters the aquifer, it flows along the gradients created by differences in hydraulic pressure into the...
    8 KB (869 words) - 18:23, 5 August 2023
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    of the Hydraulic Transport of Solids in Full Suspension Ravelet, F., Bakir, F., Khelladi, S., Rey, R. (2012). Experimental study of hydraulic transport...
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