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BUILDING WITH LIME Glossary Accelerator: an ingredient added to a mortar or plastering mix to hasten the set. Active clay: any clay, which will produce an active pozzolan by firing at a suitable temperature. These are likely to be fine and soft clays, but the mineralogy is significant. Active hydraulic binder: a hydraulic binder, which acts without the addition of an activator such as lime. In effect, this includes hydraulic cements and hydraulic limes, but excludes pozzolans. Adobe: a method of earth construction in which the clay soil is first made into blocks which are allowed to dry out before they are used in the masonry. Aggregate: the hard filler materials, such as sand and stones, in mortars, plasters, renders and concretes. Agricultural lime: any lime used for soil conditioning, but usually a term to describe ground-up chalk or limestone which is calcium carbonate. In building terms, this is not called lime. Air limes: limes which set through carbonation rather than through chemical reaction with water. Air slaked lime: the mixture of calcium (and possibly magnesium) carbon ate, hydroxide and oxide which results when a quicklime slakes naturally in moist air. For most purposes this is a debased material. Air-entraining agents: materials which cause air to be included in a mortar mix. This air may either be as bubbles in the matrix or air-filled pores. Aluminates: compounds of aluminium and oxygen. Aragonite: the mineral form of calcium carbonate with an orthorhombal crystal structure. Arènes: a class of sands described by Vicat and having irregular and unequal grains and a clay content of between 25% and 75%. A mortar pre pared with a fat lime and arène can harden underwater and bas been used for repairs to hydraulic engineering work in the Dordogne region of France. Argillaceous: containing clay substances, normally used in the context of rocks or marls. Armature: a rod or framework of iron or other material built into a surface, usually a wall or ceiling,