Friday, May 15, 2015

0515 - The “living concrete” that can heal itself.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/14/tech/bioconcrete-delft-jonkers/index.html


1.pantheon =  A public building commemorating and dedicated to the heroes of a nation.
2.rebar = a steel bar or rod used to reinforce concrete.
3.corrode = to destroy gradually; consume:
4.thrive = to grow strongly and vigorously
5.spores = A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is resistant to adverse environmental conditions and is capable of growing into a neworganism, produced especially by certain fungi, algae, protozoans, and nonseedbearing plants such as mosses and ferns.
6.limestone = A common sedimentary rock consisting mostly of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, used as a building stone and in the manufacture of lime, carbondioxide, and cement.
7.calcium lactate = a white crystalline salt made by the action of lactic acid on calcium carbonate; used in foods (as a baking powder) and givenmedically as a source of calcium
8.germinate = to begin to grow or develop.