• QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    So if you add carrots into concrete with poop, it will become even more stronger?

    https://www.dezeen.com/2018/08/09/carrots-concrete-stronger-lancaster-university-technology/

    Concrete mixtures could be strengthened by adding nanoparticles extracted from carrots and other root vegetables, research currently underway at England’s Lancaster University suggests.

    Preliminary tests by the university’s engineers found that “nano platelets” sourced from the fibres of these vegetables “significantly improved” the strength of concrete — and at a low cost.

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      And wasn’t rice the secret ingredient in the concrete of the great wall?

      Maybe we can’t add too much stuff, because we actually also need the cement and stuff…