ICE CONCRETE.
LIGHT BUILDING MATERIAL. " Ice concrete is the name of a new, porous, astonishingly light building material invented in Finland. Like ordinary concrete (says the "Architects' Journal") it is composed of cement and sand. Crushed ice or snow is used during the process of mixing. Heat evaporates the water of the melting ice, and the result is»a block or brick, uniformly honeycombed, with minute pores. The number of pores varies directly with the quantity of ice or snow mixed with the cement or sand. Building thus made are exceeding' lisht nnd durable. In a house or office building of ice concrete there is a savino- of weight varying from 20 to 50 per cent Because thev are cellular m structure, the blocks act as insulators to keen out heat in summer and cold in winter. If ice concrete is made without sand the resultant product is a tough compound that can be sawn, nailed, sfcrewed, chiselled, and cut as readily as if it were wood,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 81, 16 January 1928, Page 7
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166ICE CONCRETE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 81, 16 January 1928, Page 7
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