Crossword-Solution: POZZOLANA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pozzolana | n. | Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water. |
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| type of porous volcanic ash | 1 answer |
| CEMENT mixing material | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with POZZOLANA (5)
Concretionary Structure.—It is probable that some of the heterogeneous materials which rivers transport to the sea may at once set under water, like the artificial mixture called pozzolana, which consists of fine volcanic sand charged with about twenty per cent of oxide of iron, and the addition of a small quantity of lime.
Here they often found it necessary to step aside to make passageway for carts loaded with Pozzolana sand.
There is still a path on the banks of the Fosso della Cecchina, leading to the rear wall of the villa, _aversum villæ parietem_; and the hillsides are still honeycombed with pozzolana quarries, the _angustiæ cavernarum_ of Suetonius.
Italy abounds in clay, lime, and a volcanic product, _pozzolana_ (from Puteoli or Pozzuoli, where it has always been obtained in large quantities), which makes an admirable hydraulic cement.
The Sand which is found near _Naples_ call'd _Pozzolana_ is so proper to make good Mortar, if it be mixed with Lime, that not only in the ordinary Fabricks, but even in the very bottom of the Sea it grows into a wonderful hard Body.