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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Allocation of impacts

Hi.
What's the meaning of
When using industrial by-products as cement replacing material in ‘green’ concrete, an economical allocation of impacts is recommended.

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I do not know what the second part of the sentence means. Is there anything in the whole article that would provide a clue?

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I do not know what the second part of the sentence means. Is there anything in the whole article that would provide a clue?
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Yes.
Environment gets affected by concrete/cement production
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I don't understand it either, but looking at the abstract at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/cement-and-concrete-composites/most-downloaded-articles/ I'm guessing that "cement replacing material" should be "cement-replacing material". Obviously "impacts" refers to
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GPYObviously "impacts" refers to "environmental impacts", but the difficulty for me is understanding the sense in which "economical" is meant.
Yes, that's the problem I had. Since it is an abstract of the original article there is no further explanation of what is meant. The original article may have made it clear. Perhaps the author was trying to suggest that
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Or not being extravagent with the use of materials
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soheil1Or not being extravagent with the use of materials
However, the thing described as "economical" is the "allocation of impacts", which to me does not seem to fit that interpretation very well.
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soheil1Why?
Because I don't see that "allocation of (environmental) impacts" has much to do with not being extravagant with use of materials.
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