In common practice, the cohesion of mortar is greatly impaired by using too large a proportion of sand ; it should never exceed two parts, by measure, to one of lime paste.

It seems the Maya independently developed their own lime pyrotechnology around 1100 BCE, and the plasters, mortars, and stuccos they produced exhibit impressive resistance to granular ...

B ending conduit, wiring circuits and working with lime-based mortar, a group of local teenagers recently explored options in ...

Mysterious lime clasts, dismissed as defects, turn out to serve a useful purpose. Skip to content ... ancient Roman concrete was basically a mix of a semi-liquid mortar and aggregate.

They also found references to Mayan lime mortar being made with “some sort of water coming from a tree bark,” from a text written by a bishop living in the 16th century.