Sugar can slow down the hardening of concrete, but this is too small of a concentration and even if you do increase the concentration it still hardens which (depending on the application) does not ruin it.
Yes from what I can find, depending on the type of concrete, it takes 4-30lbs of sugar per ton. The point is not to keep it permanently plastic, it will set, but its structural integrity is greatly compromised and it will crumble under stresses far, far, lower than it will need to deal with.
Well no because the other part of this that isnt talked about is… concrete is heavy as fuck, and one ton of concrete is basically nothing size wise. Its more like you have to throw 200lbs of sugar in every truck that arrives at the job site, often with many many trucks.
That was the red flag when I read this. After letting a few footings for a porch I started till captures how many tins must go into a garage floor slab, let alone a prison in billionaire bunker.
I agree that the sugar thing is not really feasible, but if you could find a way to lower the integrity of the concrete, you wouldn’t have to do it to the whole project, only the foundation or the first part of the first floor.
There’s like a thousand caveats to this though just as an aside. If someone realizes the concrete is tampered with, they’re probably tossing the whole batch. It’s better to be safe than sorry and they probably don’t have time to wait for the lab report on what got added to the mix without their permission.
Not that I’m recommending that people do this, but if you wanted to fuck up concrete I’d think going for a compound that makes it cure faster would be the way to go. Too fast leads to more heat which leads to fractures in the concrete from the intense heat.
There were Chinese construction companies that cut corners and used beach sand instead of more expensive river sand.
The buildings the made are all called Tofu towers or something similar, because you can walk up to the ones still standing and pull chunks off, like they were made of tofu.
I’m assuming this is AI generated misinformation that pulled incorrect information from all the reposts. Please stop doing this. AI doesn’t know anything and only repeats stuff that is said frequently, which is often wrong, like this case.
The outcomes indi-
cate that in small concentrations, sugar serves as a retarder,
but when added in greater concentrations (>5%), it prolongs
commencement of setting (initial) and hardening time
(final) which negatively influence the strength and bonding
properties of the specimens.
Why does this work, exactly?
It doesn’t! (ish)
Sugar can slow down the hardening of concrete, but this is too small of a concentration and even if you do increase the concentration it still hardens which (depending on the application) does not ruin it.
Yes from what I can find, depending on the type of concrete, it takes 4-30lbs of sugar per ton. The point is not to keep it permanently plastic, it will set, but its structural integrity is greatly compromised and it will crumble under stresses far, far, lower than it will need to deal with.
So now you have a prison which will catastrophically collapse upon the prisoners?
Well no because the other part of this that isnt talked about is… concrete is heavy as fuck, and one ton of concrete is basically nothing size wise. Its more like you have to throw 200lbs of sugar in every truck that arrives at the job site, often with many many trucks.
That was the red flag when I read this. After letting a few footings for a porch I started till captures how many tins must go into a garage floor slab, let alone a prison in billionaire bunker.
I agree that the sugar thing is not really feasible, but if you could find a way to lower the integrity of the concrete, you wouldn’t have to do it to the whole project, only the foundation or the first part of the first floor.
The structural issues would mean they could not get to that point in construction
what if I drink the concrete before it hardens? will that work?
I’m not a doctor but I don’t recommend it.
Depends. How are your calcium levels?
The current HHS is probably on board.
They definitely won’t be able to use it, and you’ll have nothing to worry about.
So you’ve had my biscuits and gravy?
You might get constripation.
There’s like a thousand caveats to this though just as an aside. If someone realizes the concrete is tampered with, they’re probably tossing the whole batch. It’s better to be safe than sorry and they probably don’t have time to wait for the lab report on what got added to the mix without their permission.
Not that I’m recommending that people do this, but if you wanted to fuck up concrete I’d think going for a compound that makes it cure faster would be the way to go. Too fast leads to more heat which leads to fractures in the concrete from the intense heat.
Salt. Salt will completely fuck concrete.
There were Chinese construction companies that cut corners and used beach sand instead of more expensive river sand.
The buildings the made are all called Tofu towers or something similar, because you can walk up to the ones still standing and pull chunks off, like they were made of tofu.
This works too. You keep forcing them to toss materials, and delay the building of the prisons.
So you really just need a few huge empty bags of salt/sand/rice/etc, then get caught sneaking out of the mixing plant.
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I’m assuming this is AI generated misinformation that pulled incorrect information from all the reposts. Please stop doing this. AI doesn’t know anything and only repeats stuff that is said frequently, which is often wrong, like this case.
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Source on the paper?
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So 100% bullshit