Administratrix Female to whom authority if given, by the courts, to manage and distribute the estate of a person who has died without a will. A male is called an administrator. Admiralty Metal Alloy that is at least 70 percent copper and 1 percent tin , with the remainder being zinc and often trace amounts of other elements. This metal is resistant to deterioration in the presence of salt air or saltwater and is used commonly where those conditions exist. Includes admiralty bronze and admiralty brass .
Stucco is difficult to trowel unless a small amount of lime is added to the mix.
The mixture to which something has been added. Adobe Heavy clay used to make adobe bricks . Adobe Brick Brick made of adobe clay and straw, dried in the sun rather than by oven firing with standard bricks . Adobe bricks are still used for building in certain areas of the country. Adobe Construction Construction method, which uses sun, baked blocks, which are made of soil mixed with straw, and used chiefly in the southwest of the United States and in Latin America and other arid parts of the world.