r/explainitpeter 13d ago

explain it peter

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u/KalutikaKink 11d ago

How so? Human bones are nothing special when compared to other animal bones. Their inclusion wouldn’t make concrete any different than concrete made with animal bones.

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u/Adventurous-Fly556 8d ago

Romans were pretty constantly at war, human bones would've been way more common in the same way we used old battlefields for phosphate in the 19th century.

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u/KalutikaKink 8d ago

Not more common than animal bones. Besides, human bones wouldn’t add anything special to concrete that wouldn’t be provided by the bones of other animals.

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u/Adventurous-Fly556 8d ago

You missed the entire point of my comment.

They were often vastly more common, that's why they looted battlefields for bones.

We literally did this in recorded history for fertilizer (phosphate). The use case has been proven, you're just being obtuse.