How to Use clast in a Sentence
clast
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The new research focused on clasts, fragments broken off from the mountain during the landslide.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Aug. 2025
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Roman concrete, for instance, could repair its own cracks thanks to lime clasts, which react with water to seal fractures.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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Water was then added, creating a chemical reaction that produced heat and trapped the lime clasts in the concrete.
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Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
19 Dec. 2025
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The method created white chunks called lime clasts, and when water seeped in, those clasts would dissolve and reform into calcium carbonate, allowing the concrete to heal and seal the damage.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
23 Dec. 2025
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Recent research suggests the material contains lime clasts that can react with water and help seal cracks over time, effectively giving the concrete self-healing properties.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
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Using modern micro-CT scanning, which employed medical-level scans on the previously untouched core samples from the Light Mantle, Magnarini and her colleagues investigated clasts, which are rocky fragments that broke off from the slope of South Massif.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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