THREE CONCRETE FACTS AND A JOKE
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD ‘CONCRETE’ MEANS?
The word “concrete” comes from the Latin word “concretus” which means to grow together.
BUILD IT WITH CONCRETE AND IT WILL LAST A VERY LONG TIME
Concrete structures are designed to be permanent and when built well, will last up to 100 years, though there are concrete buildings, bridges and aqueducts in Italy and Greece that are thousands of years old. Some researchers suggest that adding an extremely fine form of silica called fume can increase durability to 16,000 years! How did they figure that out?
CONCRETE STILL HOLDS UP THIS ROMAN LANDMARK FROM 2,000 YEARS AGO!
The Pantheon in Rome was built using 5,000 tons of concrete. Constructed in the first century, the dome of the Pantheon is still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. An earlier structure in Athens, Greece, known as the Parthenon dates to 438 B.C., though it was not made of concrete but stone and marble
CONCRETE JOKE
Q: What do you call an apple filled with concrete?
A: Hardcore.
