Slow-Motion Demolition: Expanding Agent Cracks Concrete from Within

[misnamed]

http://weburbanist.com/2017/07/16/slow-motion-demolition-expanding-agent-cracks-concrete-from-within/

[jaclaz]

Some non-news (and also somehow inaccurate).

I started using this kind of expanding agents in 1985 or 1986, it was AFAIK originally developed in Japan under the brand name Bristar:

http://www.taiheiyo-m.co.jp/english/product/productSubtop_4/

I believe it was invented and commercialized initially during the late 1960's/early 1970's:

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/taiheiyo-ce...