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   From: hrubin@stat.purdue.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   Cardman   wrote:   
   >On 26 Jan 2004 05:45:25 -0800, harmoneverett@hotmail.com (Harmon   
   >Everett) wrote:   
      
   >>Joe Strout  wrote in message news:...   
   >>> In article <3c6b9c1e.0401220223.7407dac3@posting.google.com>,   
   >>>  raf@tiki-lounge.com (Ross A. Finlayson) wrote:   
      
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   >>There's no water, so concrete is out of the question, but maybe melted   
   >>regolith could serve as structural elements.   
      
   >If you tried melting it, then I could only envision lots of impurities   
   >making your job of making a solid wall very difficult.   
      
   It is not at all clear that impurities which would not just   
   "slag out" will weaken the wall that much.  Adobe and bricks   
   have "lots of impurities".   
      
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