expanded-clay aggregate
1Ex-clay — Expanded clay aggregate, or exclay, is a lightweight ceramic aggregate, for short an LWA, used in construction. Exclay is produced from natural clay and the end product have the shape of round pellets. They clay have been expanded by thermal… …
2Construction aggregate — Limestone quarry …
3LECA — Expanded clay pellets, most commonly known under the brand name LECA (acronym of light expanded clay aggregate ), also known as Hydroton and under the non proprietary terms fired clay pebble , grow rocks , expanded clay (pellets) or hydrocorns ,… …
4Hydroponics — (from the Greek words hydro (water) and ponos (labour) is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium,… …
5Passive hydroponics — Passive hydroponics, semi hydroponics or passive subirrigation is a method of growing plants without soil, peat moss, or bark. Instead an inert porous medium transports water and fertilizer to the roots by capillary action. Water and fertilizer… …
6керамзит — expanded clay aggregate Keramsit пористий штучний матеріал з легкоплавких глинистих порід, що спучуються. Виготовляють К. випалюванням у вигляді гравію, щебеню, піску. Застосовують у будівництві …
7brick and tile — ▪ building material Introduction structural clay products, manufactured as standard units, used in building construction. The brick, first produced in a sun dried form at least 6,000 years ago and the forerunner of a wide range of… …
8Types of concrete — There are many types of concrete, variations of installation, composition, finish and performance characteristics. A highway paved with concrete …
9Crushed stone — 20 millimetre crushed stone, for construction aggregate and landscape uses. Crushed stone or angular rock is a form of construction aggregate, typically produced by mining a suitable rock deposit and breaking the removed rock down to the desired… …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
