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Calcium-munching bacteria could be a secret weapon against road salt eating away at concrete roads and bridges

  • Written by Yaghoob Farnam, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Drexel University
Calcium-munching bacteria could be a secret weapon against road salt eating away at concrete roads and bridgesFixing cracks and potholes in concrete roads like this one may be easier with help from bacteria.Yaghoob Farnam, CC BY-SA

Bacteria, which have been working for millennia as nature’s stonemasons, could soon be enlisted to help neutralize the destructive effects of road salt.

According to the Transportation Research Board, it takes about 10...

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