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Green cement: concrete, the number one construction material, is a major source of climate-warming gases. Meet one engineer who hopes to build a better world with
- Source :
- Smithsonian. December, 2011, Vol. 42 Issue 8, p52, 5 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- 'You know, cement is everywhere,' Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, an environmental engineer at Imperial College in London, says while sitting in a brightly lit college conference room in a hulking seven-story building [...]
- Subjects :
- Cement industry -- Environmental aspects
Global warming -- Causes of
Limestone -- Environmental aspects
Environmental engineers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Works
Magnesium oxide -- Environmental aspects
Green products -- Materials
Air pollution -- Causes of
Cement -- Environmental aspects -- Materials
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00377333
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Smithsonian
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.277000063