As the mortar hardens, the current atmosphere is encased in the mortar and thus provides a sample for analysis.

Scientific Industries still makes a version of this original vortex mixer.

These premixed mortar products are designated by one of the five letters, M, S, N, O, and K. Type M mortar is the strongest, and Type K the weakest.

Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

Hydraulic mortar was not available in ancient China, possibly due to a lack of volcanic ash.

During the Middle Ages when the Gothic cathedrals were being built, the only active ingredient in the mortar was lime.

I have raised up one from the north, and he has come from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah

I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah

Because of a lack of stone and an abundance of clay, Babylonian constructions were of baked brick, using lime or pitch for mortar.

Grout is generally a mixture of water, cement, sand, often color tint, and sometimes fine gravel (if it is being used to fill the cores of concrete blocks).

But in the world's most advanced countries, the promise of material prosperity that freedom made possible has long since replaced attention to and defense of fundamental democratic values as the cement of society.

It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits, because you have 15 minutes here and 30 minutes there, and then something else happens and you're pulled off your work, and you've got to do something else, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch.

Of course, the US was not always so strict. Shortly after its founding, it tried debt mutualization, with Alexander Hamilton, America s first Treasury secretary, describing the scheme in 1791 as the cement for a new American federation.

So we take a carrot cake, put it in a blender, and we have kind of like a carrot cake juice, and then that went into a balloon frozen in liquid nitrogen to create this hollow shell of carrot cake ice cream, I guess, and it comes off looking like, you know, Jupiter's floating around your plate.