The Romans were the first to utilize concrete as a building material.

罗马人首先使用混凝土作建筑材料。

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Considered as a building material, wood is not very strong.

木材可以用作建筑材料，但不很结实。

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Bamboois unsuitable as a building material for multistory buildings.

竹子是不适合作为建筑材料的对于多层建筑而言。

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On June sixth,nineteen thirty-three, workers poured the first load of a building material called concrete.

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He tested the cement, and says less could be used because the rice hull ash makes it a stronger building material.

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Fuller was head of a company that made a light-weight building material.

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Inhalation of asbestos, which was widely used as a building material from the 1950s until 2000, can cause cancer and other serious diseases which the Health and Safety Executive says is responsible for about 4, 000 deaths a year.

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This has led to increased use of coking coal in these countries, which is used for manufacturing steel, a basic building material.

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Police also arrested three officers of the municipal agency that clears construction projects in the area, one police official, a building-material supplier, a local politician and a mediator who worked for the builders, Mr. Ballal said.

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