| 单词 | hydraulic lime |
| 释义 | > as lemmashydraulic lime 3. Applied to substances which harden under water and so become impervious to it; as hydraulic cement, hydraulic lime, hydraulic mortar. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [adjective] > quick-setting > under water hydraulic1829 1829 Arcana of Sci. & Art 246 When the bridge of Louis XVI was constructed, much advantage was derived from mixing with the hydraulic mortar which was used, a portion of the clinkers..which had passed through the grates of the glass bottle furnace, at Meudon. 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 157/2 Hydraulic lime will harden in a very short time. 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 157/2 Roman cement, the most hydraulic of all mortars. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 135 Silica is an essential element in the formation of a good hydraulic cement. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1114 Hydraulic chalk cement, hardening under water in a few minutes. 1863 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (1878) xii. 167 Blue argillaceous limestone, largely quarried..for hydraulic lime. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xx. 176 Hydraulic mortars, which harden under water. < as lemmas |
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