ferroconcrete

noun

fer·ro·con·crete ˌfer-ō-ˈkän-ˌkrēt

-kän-ˈkrēt

: reinforced concrete

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Since steel was scarce, the ship was built of ferroconcrete—a frame of metal mesh or steel-alloy rebar to which a concrete mixture was added in layers. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022 Yet for all its sheer matter—steel, glass, silver, aluminum, copper, ferroconcrete, silicon—the observatory seems to lift off into a mytho-poetic dimension. — Michael Jones McKean, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025

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1896, in the meaning defined above

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