laterite in English

noun
1
a reddish clayey material, hard when dry, forming a topsoil in some tropical or subtropical regions and sometimes used for building.
Check whether your building or part of it is constructed with any of the traditional building materials like lime, laterite , granite, wood, mud or the like.

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1. Laterite, and gold placers are the only exogenic deposits.

2. It is an accessory mineral associated with nickel laterite deposits in New Caledonia.

3. Aluminum starts out as Bauxite ore – an aluminum ore formed from laterite soil

4. This site was not producing: the laterite overburden was intact and any alluvial gravel remained uncovered.

5. The laterite concrete showed a net contraction when immersed inhot 1N NaOH solution (i.e. rapid alkali reactivity test).

6. The invention proposes a method of producing a laterite based adsorption material for removing arsenic from drinking water.

7. The laterite is heated for denaturation and than surface - activated to improve the adsorption capacity of the material.

8. After 1000 CE, construction at Angkor Wat and other southeast Asian sites changed to rectangular temple enclosures made of laterite, brick, and stone.

9. Biocenosis baskets need very little maintenance because the life of the cat litter is indefinite and the Laterite is only very slowly depleted by plants

10. Bauxite is a soft limonite iron ore rock with portions of its iron composition replaced by aluminum. Bauxite forms when silica leaches out from laterite soil

11. Several mixes of laterite aggregate concrete were made with varying watercement and aggregate-cement ratios to study the properties like workability, compressive, flexural, tensile strength and Modulus of elasticity.

12. By then the laterite overburden had been completely removed and a number of deep, well-cut pits had been sunk to a depth of # metres, down to the underlying layer of alluvial gravel