Space Bricks

Space bricks are bricks in the outer space of earth or on any celestial body. The process uses urea, lunar soil, bacteria and guar beans in the making of these bricks.

  • The process of creating these bricks involves using urea which can be readily found in human urine and mixing it with lunar soil are the raw materials.
  • Adding guar gum that is extracted from guar beans.
  • Another option is using a bacterium called Sporosarcina pasteurii, they found, which produces calcium carbonate crystals through a metabolic pathway called the ureolytic cycle.
  • Space bricks could be useful in building self-sustaining structures ....
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