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Making of Cement Tiles using an old technique

From: Apartmenttherapy

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3 Popular Philippine Urban Myths

Remember that Philippine urban legend about the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) foundation being built on cement and the blood of about a hundred people? Well it isn’t a myth. Although the building in question is actually the Manila Film Center, adjacent to the CCP, and accident during the last stages of its construction buried some hundred plus people in quick drying cement. And there are more of these stories around the country that has yet to be proven (or disproven). Here are some of the popular urban myths in the country:

  The Broadway Centrum Parking Lot Psycho:The story goes that one night, while parked in the Broadway Centrum parking lot, a couple in their car can’t start the engine because, to their surprise, the gas meter has gone empty. The guy decides that he’ll go out to buy gas.

  Hours after, the boyfriend still hasn’t made it back and the girl started to get worried. This was before everyone had cellphones. Suddenly, a man in a black raincoat decides do just stand in front of the car. The girl tries to ignore this until the dark figure starts banging on the hood. The girl, all alone and afraid, starts ramming the horns and flashing the head lights while screaming. The guy eventually leaves. Out of worry for her boyfriend as well as her own well being, the girl decides she’ll leave the car. But just at that moment, she sees the hooded man approach her side of the car carrying her boyfriend’s head in one hand and the car’s keys in the other. The girl was found next morning by grounds keepers but can’t be brought in for questioning because she has gone insane. Kisses give “birth”: So maybe you aren’t familiar with kisses but they’re these little colorful jelly things that look like frog eggs but smell really good.

                                     Fragrant fun frog eggs

 They were a big fad during the 90s and were supposedly used to make plastic flowers fragrant. However, a popular belief then was that these little things “gave birth” overnight if placed on top of a wet tissue, cotton, or paper. I think this popular myth just lasted because I’ve yet to hear anyone try making just two pieces of kisses reproduce.

  “Pasma”: is the Filipino term for hyperhidrosis or, simply put, having sweaty palms and feet. Medically, it is a condition most likely acquired genetically and is irreversible if not surgically corrected. Pasma is also the condition of having shaky hands. In the Filipino sense of it, it is believed to be caused and cured by a lot of certain things.

  One such cause of pasma is ironing clothes and then washing your hands afterwards. Not only that, but in general, overworking your hands or feet, and then washing or splashing water on them will make you more likely to get pasma. So that means you’d have to wait a little after coming home from work from a cement factory before you could clean yourself up. It’s like the you-can’t-swim-yet time restraint after eating that is said to give you appendicitis.

  Not only is that, but a cure to this said to be to shower your hands and feet in the morning… with your pee. Yes, all that urine pent up overnight gushing hot and yellow is a cure for pasma. What makes this cure harder to verify is that people don’t generally try it; or they may have tried the method but will never admit to doing so.

  So from bloody cement foundations to little reproducing pebbles of joy, Philippine urban mythology pretty much covers a lot of bases; the cute, the odd and the down-right ugly. Just be sure to not park around the Broadway Centrum area when the night’s too deep.

    Author Bio:

Pierre Angela Cruz is a Blogger and Marketing Consultant for Eagle Cement, a leading Cement manufacturer in the Philippines. Check the website for more details. Follow her on twitter @cruisepyer.

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A Quick Introduction to Cement

Cement is a fine mineral powder manufactured with very precise processes. Mixed with water, this powder transforms into a paste that binds and hardens when submerged in water. Because the composition and fineness of the powder may vary, cement has different properties depending upon its makeup.

Cement is the main component of concrete. It's an economical, high-quality construction material used in construction projects worldwide.

Cement is made by grinding together a mixture of limestone and clay, which is then heated at a temperature of 1,450°C. What results is a granular substance called "clinker," a combination of calcium, silicate, alumina and iron oxide.

(from http://www.vicat.com/en/Activities/Cement/What-is-cement)

An example of how cement can be made.

1.) Limestone is taken from a quarry. It is the major ingredient needed for making cement. Smaller quantities of sand and clay are also needed. Limestone, sand and clay contain the four essential elements required to make cement. The four essential elements are calcium, silicon, aluminum and iron.

2.) Boulder-size limestone rocks are transported from the quarry to the cement plant and fed into a crusher which crushes the boulders into marble-size pieces.

3.) The limestone pieces then go through a blender where they are added to the other raw materials in the right proportion.

4.) The raw materials are ground to a powder. This is sometimes done with rollers that crush the materials against a rotating platform.

  5.) Everything then goes into a huge, extremely hot, rotating furnace to undergo a process called "sintering". Sintering means: to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting. In other words, the raw materials become sort of partially molten. The raw materials reach about 2700° F (1480°C) inside the furnace. This causes chemical and physical changes to the raw materials and they come out of the furnace as large, glassy, red-hot cinders called "clinker".

  6.) The clinker is cooled and ground into a fine gray powder. A small amount of gypsum is also added during the final grinding. It is now the finished product - Portland cement. 

The cement is then stored in silos (large holding tanks) where it awaits distribution.  The cement is usually shipped in bulk in purpose-made trucks, by rail or even by barge or ship. Some is bagged for those who want small quantities. (From: http://www.buildeazy.com/newplans/eazylist/cement.html)

To know more about this cement manufacturing process. .You can visit this website. http://eaglecement.com.ph/. 

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DIY crafts using cement

I want to show you some DIY crafts using cement  courtesy of http://papernstitchblog.com/2012/06/22/9-cool-things-you-should-make-with-cement-this-weekend/ 

Thank you for this.. :D  

Here it goes...

If you want to make crafts like this. You need a materials like:

Cement powder - which I would like to recommend the products of Eagle cement which are: eagle cement strongcem and eagle cement advance. 

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I reblog this because I was amazed on her DIY crafts...