CNN New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez June 4, 2024 11:39:00
Potentially an issue when it comes to spalling and concrete and exposure to water over a long time, right? >> it's not necessarily water. because you can have concrete that's sunk under the ocean and it doesn't spall. it's more like the chlorides that are in the air. if you take a microscope and look at the concrete very closely, you will see that it's basically looks like a sponge. it has a bunch of holes. so when you have little molecules of chlorides in the air, they go into these little voids and they eventually rust your steel much like it would rust the cars that you see next to the sea ...
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