Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 18 days agoWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?message-squaremessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down10
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 18 days agomessage-square88linkfedilink
minus-squareraman_klogius@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·18 days agoConcrete being called cement.
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up17·18 days agoI don’t see how that creates any issues
minus-squareIconoclast@feddit.ukOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-217 days agoThe workers at the jobsite are going to have an issue when they’ve showed up to pour a slab and your cement order arrives. It’s like expecting dough and receiving a bag of flour.
minus-squaregandalf_der_13te@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·18 days agoi’m not sure why that is weird … aren’t they the same thing?
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up17·18 days agoCement is only the binding agent that makes it harden. Concrete is made from sand/gravel, water and cement (+ additives).
Concrete being called cement.
I don’t see how that creates any issues
The workers at the jobsite are going to have an issue when they’ve showed up to pour a slab and your cement order arrives.
It’s like expecting dough and receiving a bag of flour.
i’m not sure why that is weird … aren’t they the same thing?
Cement is only the binding agent that makes it harden. Concrete is made from sand/gravel, water and cement (+ additives).