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  • Tarmacadam (redirect from Tar macadam)
    variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments and modern asphalt concrete. Macadam roads pioneered by Scottish...
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  • Look up tar or TAR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tar is a viscous organic black or dark brown liquid. Tar or TAR may also refer to: Tár, a 2022...
    3 KB (456 words) - 07:39, 2 May 2024
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    Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated...
    61 KB (7,109 words) - 17:53, 16 May 2024
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    Yangon has a 4,456-kilometre (2,769 mi) road network of all types (tar, concrete and dirt) in March 2011. Many of the roads are in poor condition and...
    106 KB (9,644 words) - 23:55, 21 May 2024
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    Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic...
    33 KB (3,990 words) - 17:54, 29 May 2024
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    Chipseal (redirect from Tar and chip)
    asphalt concrete or a Portland cement concrete pavement, but not as long-lasting. Chipseals are constructed by evenly distributing a thin base of hot tar, bitumen...
    8 KB (929 words) - 15:47, 29 May 2024
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    Naphthalene (redirect from Tar camphor)
    a peculiar substance resembling a concrete essential oil, which is produced during the decomposition of coal tar, by exposure to a red heat". Philosophical...
    37 KB (3,367 words) - 11:53, 21 May 2024
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    Oil sands (redirect from Tar sand)
    Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands are either loose sands or partially...
    142 KB (18,032 words) - 21:31, 22 April 2024
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    Heavier (less volatile) fractions can also be used to produce asphalt, tar, paraffin wax, lubricating and other heavy oils. Refineries also produce...
    5 KB (614 words) - 14:40, 3 June 2024
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    it from asphalt concrete. Colloquially, various forms of bitumen are sometimes referred to as "tar", as in the name of the La Brea Tar Pits. Naturally...
    95 KB (11,899 words) - 14:24, 8 June 2024
  • historical tar-based material for macadamising road surfaces, patented in 1902 Asphalt concrete, a macadamising material using asphalt instead of tar which...
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    Kenan Memorial Stadium (category North Carolina Tar Heels football)
    Retrieved October 25, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. "Concrete Being Poured on West Side of Stadium". The Tar Heel. July 14, 1927. p. 4. Retrieved October 25...
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    (MVTR). The hulls of boats and ships were once waterproofed by applying tar or pitch. Modern items may be waterproofed by applying water-repellent coatings...
    15 KB (1,886 words) - 08:24, 11 May 2024
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    involved mechanically mixing tar and aggregate prior to lay-down, and then compacting the mixture with a steamroller. The tar was modified by adding small...
    53 KB (6,211 words) - 11:56, 25 May 2024
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    or concrete. As of January 2008, the approximate market share in North America for traditional and wood ties was 91.5%, the remainder being concrete, steel...
    38 KB (3,895 words) - 19:51, 20 February 2024
  • UNIX-like systems for this is to convert data to a tar bitstream before compressing with 7z. But GNU tar (common in many UNIX environments) can also compress...
    11 KB (1,212 words) - 15:30, 22 May 2024
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    grey sealants as well as flexible tar boards. Greenlaw, Bruce. "Moisture-Proofing New Basements", Foundations and concrete work. Newtown, Connecticut: Taunton...
    9 KB (1,153 words) - 02:05, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Expansion joint
    railway tracks, piping systems, ships, and other structures. Building faces, concrete slabs, and pipelines expand and contract due to warming and cooling from...
    21 KB (2,516 words) - 18:37, 9 February 2024
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    important consideration in tarred flat roof quality is knowing that the common term 'tar' applies to rather different products: tar or pitch (which is derived...
    48 KB (6,984 words) - 14:33, 17 May 2024
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    on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton and oakum (hemp) soaked in pine tar. These fibers are driven into the wedge-shaped seam between planks, with...
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