Researchers in Jordan seem to have identified Sodium Acetate as a simple, cheap and ecologically friendly way of sealing concrete which is not my favourite material for various reasons - one of them being that the steel bars inside are prone to corrosion. This might be, at least partially, an answer to that problem.

The actual report in PDF format [~2.5 MB] via: SciGuy and: Treehugger

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