After weeks of enduring the ash brought on by Chile’s Puyehue volcano, one Argentine woman has decided to transform the grey sediment into something useful. Maria Irma Mansilla used the sediment and sand spewed by the volcano to create bricks. She hopes she and her neighbours will be able to produce them on a large scale to build homes for the poor. Eric Camara reports. (Click on link below to see video.)
Source: BBC News
[Lots of people are using fly ash for making geopolymer. Using volcanic ash is less common. That’s what the Romans used to great success.]
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