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Quotes from The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved — Joseph Davidovits

born 1935 France

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Geopolymers are revolutionary for the concrete industry.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

There is no way of distinguishing a synthetic zeolite from a natural one.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

All available stones... possessed sacred, eternal qualities.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

Natron reacts with lime and water to produce caustic soda, the main ingredient for alchemically making stone. An abundance of lime would have been available by calcining limestone in simple hearths.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

When the Egyptian alchemists developed glassmaking during the New Kingdom, it was to carry on the old religious tradition of making synthetic stones.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

Nile silt was used for making sun-dried mud bricks and various minerals were used to make enamels. Natron was a sacred product not only used for flux, but also for mummification and deification rites.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

The science that made the pyramids possible was chemistry, or, more precisely... alchemy.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

Technically alchemy encompasses historical chemical developments. ...There were great alchemical achievements during antiquity.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

This is unprecedented technology; no tremendous heat or pressure is required... Geopolymeric concrete sets rapidly at room temperatures to form synthetic stone, beautiful in appearance and abundant with unprecedented properties.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

[G]eopolymeric cements are chemically comparable to the natural cements that bind such stones as sandstone, puddingstone, and fossil-shell limestone.

The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Davidovits (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.