puzzolana
Americannoun
noun
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The puzzolana earth forms an admirable cement, and even when placed on the tops of houses it forms a terrace impenetrable by water.
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What is the meaning of the terms lapillo, puzzolana, and ceneri?
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The floor of this bay is composed of puzzolana, a name given to beds of volcanic tuff of great thickness, and rising into considerable hills in the vicinity of the city of Naples, such as that of St. Elmo.
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Formed of brick, faced with stone, and cemented with the local volcanic sand, which is consequently known as puzzolana, this wonderful breakwater must originally have stretched out into the Bay a total length of twenty-five arches, its furthest extremity being crowned by a light-house.
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"Puzzolana was mixed with the mortar used in these constructions, and without the binding quality communicated by this ingredient, probably no cement would have taken effect on the smooth a rid iron surfaces of the prisms."
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