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.
I am supposed to do a paper on what chemistry is, and I am supposed to get different perspectives. I am a sophomore in HS, and have never had chemistry or chem.related classes before, so if you could make it kind of basic and easy to understand-that would be great! Heather Buchan. Heather, chemÂ·isÂ·try n., pl.-tries.1. the science that systematically studies the composition, properties, and activity of organic and inorganic substances and various elementary forms of matter. 2. chemical properties, reactions, phenomena, etc.: the chemistry of carbon.hemÂ·isÂ·try n., pl. -tries. 1. the science that systematically studies the composition, properties, and activity of organic and inorganic substances and various elementary forms of matter. 2. chemical properties, reactions, phenomena, etc.: the chemistry of carbon.