This would mean that Roman concrete was made, at least partly, by hot mixing, for slaking quicklime with water releases enough heat to raise the temperature of a concrete mix above 80 degrees Celsius.
Occasionally Akut brought him juicy fruits which helped to slake his thirst and allay his fever, and little by little his powerful constitution overcame the effects of the spear thrusts.
Here was a new, aggressive, and absolutely relentless force, seemingly immune to military exhaustion, with a ruling class of aristocrats whose ambitions could never be slaked.
But that, God knew, was happiness enough—a feverish, craving joy, like an overtired man's thirst, growing with the drink on which it tries to slake itself.
He was singing: I was born at the village of Shijie, And I long to slake my thirst for blood; Let me only behead the deputy and He Tao, And present their heads to the Emperor Zhao.
Moreover, the distribution and the shape of the clumps suggest that the lime was added to the mix as quicklime, rather than, as is common today, slaked (hydrated) lime.
Moreover, the distribution and the shape of the clumps suggest that the lime was added to the mix as quicklime, rather than, as is common today, slaked or hydrated lime.