One of the most desert-covered nations on Earth has to buy its sand from abroad, and the reason is grain-deep wind has polished Arabian sand too smooth to bind in concrete, so Saudi Arabia imports construction sand from as far as Australia
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Millennia of wind have rendered Arabia's vast deserts worthless for construction—too polished and uniform to bind concrete, forcing the kingdom to import sand from halfway around the world.
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