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Excerpt from Proportioning Concrete Mixtures and Mixing and Placing Concrete Almost every one has more or less knowledge of the possible uses of concrete, yet a great many persons Who know of its numerous applications in building construction, fail to appreciate the fact that success in the use of concrete depends very largely upon the qualities of the sand and pebbles or broken stone of Which the concrete is largely composed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.