SciShow | The Secret to Super Strong Concrete Is... Bacteria?

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Episode Title: The Secret to Super Strong Concrete Is... Bacteria?
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Description: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Engineers would love it if concrete bridges and skyscrapers didn't require so much maintenance, and they might have found the perfect solution using bacteria. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth https://www.rsc.org/images/construction_tcm18-114530.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4827669/ https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/14/tech/bioconcrete-delft-jonkers/index.html https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ceg/research/stories-of-science/self-healing-of-concrete-by-bacterial-mineral-precipitation/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39156-8 https://books.google.com/books?id=_5yUAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=stuff+matters&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3wKOBgPvhAhXQvJ4KHeX6D1oQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=pasteurii&f=false https://www.epo.org/learning-events/european-inventor/finalists/2015/jonkers.html


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