When different and unlike things have been subjected to the action of fire and thus reduced to the same condition, if after this, while in a warm, dry state, they are suddenly saturated with water, there is an effervescence of the heat latent in the bodies of them all, and this makes them firmly unite and quickly assume the property of one solid mass.


Chapter VI, Sec. 4 - De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC) - Book II

Vitruvius Quotes

When different and unlike things have been subjected to the action of fire and thus reduced to the same condition, if after this, while in a warm,...

When different and unlike things have been subjected to the action of fire and thus reduced to the same condition, if after this, while in a warm,...

When different and unlike things have been subjected to the action of fire and thus reduced to the same condition, if after this, while in a warm,...

When different and unlike things have been subjected to the action of fire and thus reduced to the same condition, if after this, while in a warm,...