A gabion is a welded wire basket or cage filled with earth or rocks. It is typically used to build a support or abutment.From Wikipedia: Gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning big cage; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning cage) are cages, cylinders, or boxes filled with soil or sand that are used in civil engineering, road building, and military applications.rom Wikipedia: Gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning big cage; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning cage) are cages, cylinders, or boxes filled with soil or sand that are used in civil engineering, road building, and military applications.
Subject:Chemistry. Books in this subject area deal with chemistry: the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions.
n, pl -tries. 1. (Chemistry) the branch of physical science concerned with the composition, properties, and reactions of substances. See also inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry. 2. (Chemistry) the composition, properties, and reactions of a particular substance. 3. the nature and effects of any complex phenomenon: the chemistry of humour. 4. informal a reaction, taken to be instinctual, between two persons.