To: Lorianne
A month or so ago I visited Hoover Dam. There was so much concrete poured into that thing that it will be another four or five hundred years before it's completely cured throughout.
Kind of a weird feeling to know that one is driving over a massive mound of wet cement...
9 posted on
05/06/2017 7:50:51 PM PDT by
Ciaphas Cain
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Actually, as I understand it (having been there a number of times), the concrete is all cured, but only because they ran cooling pipes through all of it. Had they not done that, then, yes, it would have been 500 years.
OUTSTANDING place to visit, love it every time!
13 posted on
05/06/2017 8:10:50 PM PDT by
BobL
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To: Ciaphas Cain
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Its not wet.
The water became a part of the crystalline lattice after about 10 minutes, except where it was in motion.
Its an exothermic process.
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24 posted on
05/06/2017 9:52:29 PM PDT by
editor-surveyor
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