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Materials Science in the Antiquity Age
Romans mixed powdered limestone, volcanic ash found from Mount Vesuvius, and water to make a cement paste.

Antiquity
(8th Century BC-6th Century AD)(800 BC-600AD)

Certain structures were made possible by the character of the land upon which these structures are built. Romans mixed powdered limestone, volcanic ash found from Mount Vesuvius, and water to make a binder. A volcanic peninsula with stone aggregates and conglomerates containing crystalline material will produce material which weathers differently from soft, sedimentary rock and silt. With the discovery of cement paste, structures could be built with irregular shaped stones and have the binder fill the voids to create a solid structure. The cement gains strength as it hydrates, thus creating a stronger bond over time.With the fall of the west Roman Empire and the rise of the Byzans, this knowledge was mostly lost except to the catholic monks who were among the few who could read Vitruvius’ Latin and make use of the concrete paste. That is one of the reasons that the concrete Pantheon of Rome could last for 1850 years, and why the thatched farmhouses of Holland sketched by Rembrandt have long since decayed.

The use of asbestos as a material blossomed in Ancient Greece, especially when the fireproofing qualities of the material came to light. Many scholars believe the word asbestos comes from a Greek term, sasbestos, meaning inextinguishable or unquenchable. Clothes for nobles, table clothes and other oven adornments where all furnished with a weave of the fibrous materials, as the materials could be cleansed by throwing them directly into fire. The use of this material however was not without its downsides, Pliny the Elder, noted a link between the quick death of slaves to work in the asbestos mine. He recommended that slaves working in this environment use the skin of a blabber as a makeshift respirator.

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Trevor, I've copied your work into your sandbox. Make sure you read the up-to-date wikipedia instructions about working on your own.K8shep (talk) 18:32, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Review by K8shep (talk) 18:32, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
•First, what does the article do well? Is there anything from your review that impressed you? Any turn of phrase that described the subject in a clear way? You have removed some information that is obviously not relevant and begun to rewrite a lot of the section you've chosen. Good choices here.

•What changes would you suggest the author apply to the article? Why would those changes be an improvement? Make sure you keep working! Use the sources you have and add more information about using concrete in the ancient world.

•What's the most important thing the author could do to improve the article? There are a lot of sources out there--articles and more--about the archaeology of concrete use in the Roman world. If you need help finding some, let me know!