SB: RE: RE: mistake with lime

[jmark.vanscoter@amd.com]

Now I am getting confused. I think I know that Portland cement (aka concrete) is dangerous because it is caustic. I thought the lime is what makes it dangerous. If lime is not toxic, is it still dangerous?

Mark V.S. in Austin, TX

-----Original Message-----
From: Charmaine R Taylor [mailto:tms@northcoast.com]

I worked with some AmeriCorps volunteers who were about to teach
children to make hand prints with some free cement that had gotten.
Anyone who has ever seen a photo of how wet cement can peel your  skin
to the bone can imagine what could have happened with those children.

I was loud and insistent to the editors at Chelsea Green last year when
another book was coming out by a  trained architect  and natural
builder- with misinformation about lime- calling it toxic etc. they
agreed to change/edit that, but left other inaccuracies in the text.


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