The Surprising Secret Behind The Longevity Of Roman Concrete Compared With Our Concrete Buildings Today

"Scientists have been amazed to discover that not only does their (ancient Roman) concrete hold up over time, but it actually becomes much stronger as time passes." "The Romans created a rock-like concrete that thrives in open chemical exchange with seawater." Using lime, volcanic ash, and sea water. Recent results from x-ray micro-blah-blah-spectral-blah mineral analysis left researchers "surprised by the presence of aluminous tobermorite in the Roman cement, of which there is a lot of. This is a silica-based mineral which is reportedly both quite rare and also hard to create in a lab. This explains why Roman concrete continues to thrive even in sea water since aluminous tobermorite as well as the mineral phillipsite start to grow in the concrete as a direct result of being battered by sea water." BTW - There is an urgent effort to duplicate the ancient Roman concrete formula to combat rising sea levels. Not sure what they're looking to construct. Sea walls? Good luck with that. Reinforce critical infrastructure? Don't know as of writing this.
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The Surprising Secret Behind The Longevity Of Roman Concrete Compared With Our Concrete Buildings Today
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What is the secret behind those ancient Roman concrete buildings which are over 2,000 years old and still hold up today, unlike our own modern buildings? Did the Romans create concrete...