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What does sealant mean?

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Noun
  1. Any material used to seal a surface so as to prevent passage of a fluid.
  2. (construction) A mixture of polymers, fillers, and pigments used to fill and seal joints where moderate movement is expected.
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A previous owner had applied a sealant to these walls, trapping water inside that had rusted the rebar and caused the blocks to crack and spall.
When the bag is deployed, the sealant forces the air to escape the bag through pinholes in the fabric itself instead of the seams.
Caulking, sealant, and weather stripping will do the trick and are available at most hardware stores.
This type of failure occurs when the adhesion of the sealant to the substrate it was applied to fails.
The preprocessed food packages were sectioned trays covered in a foil sealant.
All it requires is an initial sealing with a non-toxic stone sealant which can be reapplied after a couple of years if required.

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