• amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Desert sand is too fine and smooth. Construction sand needs to be coarse and rough (not necessarily irritating, cement does that)

      • Diabolo96@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Didn’t know that but yeah the sand we’re currently using for building our house is a not as smooth to the touch.

        • Lanusensei87@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          Right, the video in the meme actually talks about construction sand, which can only be found close to rivers and sea (or mined), desert sand won’t bind to the cement for being too smooth.

          Here’s the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2_PADr0jAA (title and thumbnail has been changed since I made this, but you can see the original title in the description)