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Since 2006 it has become apparent that a number of properties in the Dublin area are suffering distress as a consequence of expansion of pyritiferous fill placed beneath ground bearing floor slabs. The location and method of sampling and the appropriate storage of the material are important in order to reliably determine whether such expansion has taken place and/or may take place in the future.
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Lombard, J. (2014). Sampling Potentially Pyritiferous Materials. In: Implications of Pyrite Oxidation for Engineering Works. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00221-7_2
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