Cement hides its secrets in plain sight.
Dusty, dirty and dry as dishwater
to anyone who pays no mind.
But for those who are piqued
by cement’s subtle slyness
the secrets are a wonder of science.
Is it a crystal? Or amorphous glass?
Why so unwilling to share its true nature?
It’s something of both yet neither,
an improbable conundrum like
yesteryear’s ideas of ether.
The code of cement was recently cracked
slyly by wily minds at MIT.
Regular stacks like crystalline lattice
all on the atomic scale of seeing
but tiny flaws and irregular gaps
form places for water to bond,
making cement one tough weird glue.
Dusty, dirty and dry as dishwater
to anyone who pays no mind.
But for those who are piqued
by cement’s subtle slyness
the secrets are a wonder of science.
Is it a crystal? Or amorphous glass?
Why so unwilling to share its true nature?
It’s something of both yet neither,
an improbable conundrum like
yesteryear’s ideas of ether.
The code of cement was recently cracked
slyly by wily minds at MIT.
Regular stacks like crystalline lattice
all on the atomic scale of seeing
but tiny flaws and irregular gaps
form places for water to bond,
making cement one tough weird glue.
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