expanded clay

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expanded clay [ik′spand·əd ′klā]

(materials)

A material made from common brick clays by grinding, screening, and then feeding through a gas burner at about 2700°F (1482°C), thus changing the ferric oxide to ferrous oxide and causing the formation of bubbles.

expanded clay

Clay which has been heated to a semiplastic condition and expanded to many times its original volume by the formation of internal gas; used as a lightweight aggregate.

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No references found			Topics of the 148 papers include the design and testing of prestressed square concrete piles, the performance of expanded clay shale as an embankment backfill, the mechanical properties of an asphalt mixture with bottom ash aggregates, and modeling instruction in an environmental geotechnics course. Geosustainability and geohazard mitigation; proceedings by SciTech Book News The producer is Grow Room and they recommend a balanced mixture of inert expanded clay and such fibers in order to make sure that everything turns out just fine with your crop. The Best Media for Hydroponics Growing Systems by Ann Marier / Home based business community Expanded clay, Rockwool, Coco coir, Perlite, Vermiculite and Oasis root cubes are some of them. Hydroponics - Growing without Soil by Jason Uvios / Home improvement and landscaping community			exotheca exotherm exothermic Exothermic Reaction exotic exotic atom Exotic Eclectic exotic four-space exotic fuels Exotic nuclei exotic nucleus exotic plant Exotic Revival exotic sphere exotic stream exotic viral disease Exotic viral diseases exotoxin exozodiacal dust EXP BT expand the tree expandable space structure expanded batch expanded blast-furnace slag expanded cement expanded clay expanded corner bead expanded foot expanded glass expanded memory expanded memory emulator expanded memory manager expanded memory page frame Expanded Memory Specification expanded metal expanded notation expanded numeral expanded perlite Expanded Plastic expanded polystyrene expanded polyurethane expanded position indicator display expanded rubber expanded scope expanded shale Expanded Slag expanded slate expanded storage expanded sweep expanded vermiculite expanded-flow bin			Expandable Polystyrene eXpandable Resilient Networking expandable space structure Expandable Spinal Fusion System Expandable Switching System Expandable Van expanded expanded expanded expanded expanded expanded Expanded Access Program Expanded Additional Skill Identifier Expanded AFP Expanded AFP Expanded Architecture Expanded Attributional Style Questionnaire Expanded Bahay Ko Program expanded batch Expanded bed adsorption Expanded Bed Capacity expanded blast-furnace slag Expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-Depression Subscale Expanded Calculator Link Processing System Expanded Capacity Vehicle expanded cement Expanded Characteristic Option Expanded Charted Visual Flight Procedures Expanded Church Response expanded clay Expanded clay pellets Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin on Lipid-Lowering Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin on Lipid-Lowering Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin on Lipid-Lowering Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin on Lipid-Lowering Expanded Content Label Expanded Control Channel expanded corner bead Expanded Curriculum for Exceptional Learners Expanded Data Rate Expanded Defense Resources Board Expanded Direct Distance Dialing Expanded Disability Status Scale Expanded Dispatch Support Dispatcher Expanded Duties Dental Assistant expanded duty auxiliary Expanded East Coast Plan Expanded Electrical Requirements Expanded Electronic Serial Number Expanded Electronic Tandem Switching Dialing Plan Expanded Endonasal Approach Expanded Enhanced Fire Control Computer Expanded Ensemble Monte Carlo Expanded Extended Three Letter Acronym Expanded eXtensible Markup Language Expanded Fire Control Computer

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