The cost of pouring petrol into a grumpy generator accounts for 25 percent of the price of a cement sack.

发电机的汽油成本占到水泥包装的25%。

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The brick car is 5 meters long, 2.15 meters wide, 1.6 meters high and weighs 6.5 tons. The car, made of red bricks, cement and steel, cost 600,000 yuan, which is the same price as a BMW.

这辆“宝马”车长五米，宽2.15米，高1.6米，足足6.5吨重，由红砖、水泥、钢铁做成，60万元的造价，堪比宝马。

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Used as cement admixture it can improve the soundness of cement and reduce the cost.

它作为水泥混合材料可以改善水泥的安定性，并能降低水泥的成本。

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Builders watch out: electricity makes up 8% of the cost of making glass, 15% of cement and 20%-plus of bricks.

ECONOMIST: Industry is unduly upset at tough new limits on emissions

In industry as in services, India has produced world-beaters: in pharmaceuticals, steel (where Tata Steel is the world's lowest-cost producer), in cement and in automotive parts.

ECONOMIST: Few hands make work light

"Maryland might as well mandate that Southwest Airlines flights landing in the state have two tons of cement in their baggage holders, to even out its per-passenger cost with American and other majors, " says George Stalk, a Boston Consulting Group retailing expert.

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