Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 days agoWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?message-squaremessage-square112linkfedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down11
arrow-up1125arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square112linkfedilink
minus-squareraman_klogius@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down1·5 days agoConcrete being called cement.
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·5 days agoI don’t see how that creates any issues
minus-squareIconoclast@feddit.ukOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-24 days agoThe workers at the jobsite are going to have an issue when they’ve showed up to pour a slab and your cement order arrives. It’s like expecting dough and receiving a bag of flour.
minus-squareW98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI understand this anology.
minus-squaregandalf_der_13te@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agoi’m not sure why that is weird … aren’t they the same thing?
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up18·5 days agoCement is only the binding agent that makes it harden. Concrete is made from sand/gravel, water and cement (+ additives).
Concrete being called cement.
I don’t see how that creates any issues
The workers at the jobsite are going to have an issue when they’ve showed up to pour a slab and your cement order arrives.
It’s like expecting dough and receiving a bag of flour.
I understand this anology.
i’m not sure why that is weird … aren’t they the same thing?
Cement is only the binding agent that makes it harden. Concrete is made from sand/gravel, water and cement (+ additives).