Cement made of Salt discovered in U.A.E

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Salt is very essential in cooking but using it to make a cement that is what we need to discuss. UAE was one of the places with great architectural buildings and it is also the place where the salt was made out of cement. A Dubai Architect turns this useful ingredient in cooking into a cement.

Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto, principal architects at waiwai, enlisted the scientific know-how of universities in the UAE and Japan to create a cement made using brine generated by the UAE's desalination plants, which remove salt from seawater.

They were inspired by the UAE's mineral-rich sabkha -- salt flats that are part of the country's wetlands. "It a huge area ... that's often overlooked," Al Awar told CNN.

“Sabkha has been used in architecture before: centuries ago, blocks were hewn from salt flats and used to build Siwa, a medieval town in Egypt close to the Libyan border. But rather than mine the delicate sabkha ecosystem, Al Awar and Teramoto turned to waste brine, which contains many of the same minerals. Also, it is not good to dispose this salt because it can harm marine life. It is a good thing that they turn this waste into good use. The freshwater-scarce UAE has one of the largest desalination operations in the world.

Professor John Provis is deputy head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the UK's University of Sheffield and is unaffiliated with the project. He says the salt-based cement is "a really good idea," explaining globally only a third of cement is used in reinforced concrete.

"These brines are a pain to dispose of," he adds. "They're taking a local waste and doing cool things with it. I think it's a really nice synergy there."

It may be a brilliant idea but they are still in research about this cement and it is still too early to use it. They need a lot of research for this but I’m pretty sure it will all be fruitful and can be used worldwide.