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aluminosis ‎(uncountable)

(pathology) A disease of the lungs caused by aluminum dust.
(construction) A structural defect resulting from the degradation of poor quality concrete.
- 2007, Edgar Illas Arau, The Euphoric Politics of Postmodern Barcelona, ISBN 0549662154, page 208:
  After this, overall inspections detected aluminosis in thousands of apartments in peripheral neighborhoods.
- 2005, Donald McNeill, Urban Change and the European Left:
  When many of these structures were proved to be substandard by the discovery of aluminosis (a disease caused by humidity which affects cement, and exacerbated by the cheap building methods), it would be Nou Barris that would be among […]

aluminosis f ‎(plural aluminosis)

(pathology) aluminosis
(construction) aluminosis
- 2015 October 30, “Opinión”, in El País:
  Cuando lo importante son las prebendas, el mejor aceite es siempre el de colza, el mejor cemento el que tiene aluminosis y el mejor puente el de Calatrava.