Whitewash is especially compatible with masonry because it is absorbed easily and the resultant chemical reaction hardens the medium. Lime wash is pure slaked lime in water. It produces a unique surface glow due to the double refraction of calcite crystals. Limewash and whitewash both cure to become the same material.
Palo Alto (/ËpÃ¦loÊ ËÃ¦ltoÊ/ PAL-oh AL-toh; Spanish: [Ëpalo Ëalto]; from palo, literally stick, colloquially tree, and alto tall; meaning: tall tree) is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.
Home to Stanford University and considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto is nestled between California's coast and the Skyline Ridge mountains. A small city with roughly 61,000 residents, Palo Alto is home to only one municipal airport, but international airports are only a half-hour drive from the city.