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pozzolanic

pozzolanic adjective: having the characteristics of pozzolana, a type of volcanic ash used for mortar or for cement which sets under water.

Adjective

pozzolanic (comparative more pozzolanic, superlative most pozzolanic)

  1. Having the characteristics of pozzolana, a type of volcanic ash used for mortar or for cement which sets under water.
    • Since this time other workers have confirmed that ground glass exhibits good pozzolanic provided it is ground to sufficient fineness. Little pozzolanic reaction is evident for glass above 300 microns but the pozzolanic activity increases as the particle size is reduced below this size with good...2020 May, Michael Thomas, David Smith, and Edward Moffatt, “THE USE OF GROUND GLASS AS A POZZOLAN”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Forms of pozzolanic

comparativemore pozzolanic
superlativemost pozzolanic

Origin of pozzolanic

From pozzolana + -ic, from Italian pozz(u)ollana, earth of Pozzuoli, a town near Naples.

Words formed from pozzolanic

Questions about pozzolanic

What does pozzolanic mean?
Pozzolanic means having the characteristics of pozzolana, a type of volcanic ash used for mortar or for cement which sets under water.
What part of speech is pozzolanic?
Pozzolanic is an adjective.

Words near pozzolanic in the dictionary

  1. pozzing
  2. pozzing up
  3. pozzolan
  4. pozzolana
  5. pozzolanas
  6. pozzolanic
  7. pozzolanicity
  8. pozzolans
  9. pozzolona
  10. pozzuolana
  11. pozzuolanas

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