Revealing the ancient Chinese secret of sticky rice mortar
Science • 6/02/10 1:20:26 pm • Views: 320
Never in a million years would I have guessed this. Seriously, the headline looks like something you’d see from The Onion.
Construction workers in ancient China used sticky rice to make a super-strong mortar for city walls and other structures that even withstood earthquakes. Chemists now have discovered the ingredient in sticky rice that made the mortar so strong.