{"id":167919,"date":"2023-07-20T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-stood-the-test-of-time"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:29:09","slug":"we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-stood-the-test-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-stood-the-test-of-time","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-stood-the-test-of-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ancient Romans were master builders and engineers, perhaps most famously represented by the still-functional aqueducts. And those architectural marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic concrete, a spectacularly durable material that gave Roman structures their incredible strength.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, one of their structures \u2013 the Pantheon, still intact and nearly 2,000 years old \u2013 holds the record for the world\u2019s largest dome of unreinforced concrete.<\/p>\n<p>The properties of this concrete have generally been attributed to its ingredients: pozzolana, a mix of volcanic ash \u2013 named after the Italian city of Pozzuoli, where a significant deposit of it can be found \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lime_(material)\">lime<\/a>. When mixed with water, the two materials can react to produce strong concrete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient Romans were master builders and engineers, perhaps most famously represented by the still-functional aqueducts. And those architectural marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic concrete, a spectacularly durable material that gave Roman structures their incredible strength. Even today, one of their structures \u2013 the Pantheon, still intact and nearly 2,000 years old [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}