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Sand - Uses of sand | | Sand - Uses of sand: Encyclopedia II - Sand - Uses of sand | | Sand is often a principal component of the aggregate used in the preparation of concrete. Sand manufactured at rock crusher plants for use as an aggregate is called mansand. Graded sand is used as an abrasive in sandblasting and is also used in media filters for filtering water.
Brick manufacturing plants use Sand as an additive with a mixture of clay and other materials for manufacturing bricks.
Sandy soils are ideal for certain crops such as watermelons, peaches, and peanuts and are often preferred for intensive dairy farming because of thei ...
See also:Sand, Sand - Uses of sand, Sand - Hazards of sand | | | Sand, Sand - Hazards of sand, Sand - Uses of sand, Quicksand, Dry quicksand, Grain size, Sandstone, Sandstorm, Singing sand, White Sands National Monument | | |
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Sand - Uses of sand
Sand is often a principal component of the aggregate used in the preparation of concrete. Sand manufactured at rock crusher plants for use as an aggregate is called mansand. Graded sand is used as an abrasive in sandblasting and is also used in media filters for filtering water.
Brick manufacturing plants use Sand as an additive with a mixture of clay and other materials for manufacturing bricks.
Sandy soils are ideal for certain crops such as watermelons, peaches, and peanuts and are often preferred for intensive dairy farming because of their excellent drainage characteristics.
Sandbags are used for protection against floods and gun fire. They can be easily transported when empty, and filled with local sand.
People, especially children, love to play with sand on a beach or in a sandpit. See sand art and play for details.
Other related archivesArkose, Brick, Dry quicksand, Grain size, Granular materials, New Mexico, Quicksand, Sandbags, Sandstone, Sandstorm, Sedimentology, Sediments, Singing sand, Soil science, White Sands National Monument, abrasive, beach, beaches, children, chlorite, clay, concrete, dairy farming, deserts, dunes, erosion, feldspar, floods, garnets, gemstones, geology, glauconite, gneiss, grain size, granite, granular matter, gravel, gun, gypsum, lavas, limestone, lung disease, magnetite, manufacturing plants, media filters, millimeters, olivine, peaches, peanuts, play, quartz, rock, sand art and play, sand bars, sand spits, sandblasting, sandpit, sandstone, silica, silicosis, silt, soils, tropical, water, watermelons, weathering, white sands, wind
 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Uses of sand", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
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