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Building industry
Mortar and PlasterLime has always been used as a binder. Although slower in curing than pure cement mortar, lime (or bastard) mortar has advantage to enhance plasticity and thus easy application.
Furthermore, masonry work with lime mortar has equal resistance, but is more impermeable, more flexible and less susceptible to cracks. |
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Several categories of building materials are used with lime and calcium carbonate: -silica-limestone bricks, which combine lime and silica sand. -cellular concrete, light and insulating, obtained from a gasified mortar based on silica sand, lime and cement. -yellow or salmon-coloured decorative bricks, obtained by decolouring the iron oxide of the clay by means of micronised calcium carbonate: concrete, in all its forms, which micronised calcium carbonate makes smoother, more elegant, less porous. |
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Paints, colorants, varnishes and fillersLime has been used since time immemorial as a basic product to whitewash walls, thanks to such qualities as its resistance to rust, humidity and fire, as well as its natural whiteness and disinfecting role. But lime is also used to produce white pigments, such as White Satin. | |||
For any further information please contact: stephan.vos@carmeuse.be
Dams, railways & roads |
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Limestone aggregates and calcareous sand, washed and carefully graded to specific sizes, are widely used in the construction of dams, railways, roads and for the production of concrete and asphalt |
For any further information please contact: patrick.joris@carmeuse.be
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