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Vicat
Vicat SA is a French company manufacturing cement, aggregates and ready-mix concrete in four continents.
Usage examples of "vicat".
The Vicat apparatus is used for determining the normal consistency, and the Gilmore apparatus for the time of setting.
What think you will be the reward of Vicat, the one among us who has brought about the only real progress in the practical science of construction?
Riquet, Perronet, Leonardo da Vinci, Cachin, Palladio, Brunelleschi, Michel-Angelo, Bramante, Vauban, Vicat, derive their genius from causes unobserved and preparatory, which we call chance,--the pet word of fools.