What is the ratio of the building material that is named for the Latin word "crushed" and sand used to stabilize buildings?
Sandcrete Sandcrete is a yellow-white building material made from a binder (typically Portland cement), sand in a ratio of circa 1:8, and water. Sometimes other ingredients may be added to reduce the amount of expensive Portland cement such as pozzolanas and rice husk ash. Sandcrete is similar but weaker than mortar, for which the ratio is circa 1:5. "Soil cement" and "landcrete" are similar materials but use other types of soil and hydraform blocks which are compressed, stabilized, earth blocks.
Zener ratio The Zener ratio is a dimensionless number that is used to quantify the anisotropy for cubic crystals. It is sometimes referred as "anisotropy ratio" and is named after Clarence Zener. Conceptually, it quantifies how far a material is from being isotropic (where the value of 1 means an isotropic material).