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"Mixers, application tools, and construction operations as independent things", "Cement, lime, sand, and other constituents as standalone materials" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify the construction-material sense through composition and intended use; the name alone also denotes unrelated equipment.", "Recognise a binder-based mixture typically containing fine aggregate and mixing liquid, rather than treating mortar as a pure chemical substance.", "Distinguish mortar from cement or lime by separating the formulated mixture from its binder constituents.", "Distinguish masonry mortar from concrete through aggregate specification and intended joint or bedding function; appearance alone is insufficient.", "Distinguish mortar from grout through declared placement purpose and fresh-property requirements, since composition can overlap." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended mortar use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "bedding; jointing; pointing; masonry repair; other 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"why_it_matters": "Bond is a property of the mortar-unit combination and preparation conditions." }, { "name": "Moisture transport", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "capillary absorption and vapour transmission results with method-specific units", "why_it_matters": "Moisture behaviour affects drying and compatibility with adjoining masonry." }, { "name": "Dimensional response", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "shrinkage or expansion in mm/m, with age and conditioning", "why_it_matters": "Dimensional change can contribute to cracking and joint separation." }, { "name": "Declared classification and hazard identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "product or recipe linked to applicable specification, classification, and safety documentation", "why_it_matters": "Mortar classes and hazards depend on the formulation and governing documentation; a universal chemical identifier is inappropriate." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare a mortar formulation and documented 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mixing liquid, and additions to explicit proportioning evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which binders, aggregates, admixtures, and additives are documented for this mortar?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-mortar-recipe-q01" }, { "text": "What are their proportions, and are these measured by mass or volume with aggregate moisture accounted for?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-mortar-recipe-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fresh-mortar-usability", "name": "Fresh mortar usability", "description": "Describe how supplied or mixed mortar reaches and retains a usable placement condition.", "rationale": "A suitable formulation can become unsuitable through incorrect mixing, water adjustment, storage, or delay.", "layers": [ { "id": "supply-and-mixing-history", "name": "Supply and mixing history", "description": "Track the preparation history relevant to the current batch.", "findings": [ { "id": "batch-preparation-condition", "name": "Batch preparation condition", "description": "Relate supply form, storage, batching, and mixing to the mortar being assessed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the mortar supplied dry, supplied wet, or site-batched, and what storage and mixing history is recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "batch-preparation-condition-q01" }, { "text": "How much water was introduced, including subsequent additions, and what mixing procedure was followed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "batch-preparation-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "placement-window", "name": "Placement window", "description": "Assess consistency and elapsed time against the conditions of intended placement.", "findings": [ { "id": "current-working-condition", "name": "Current working condition", "description": "Establish whether the batch can still form adequately filled joints under its documented use conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What consistency, segregation, or premature stiffening is observed, using which assessment method and at what elapsed time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "current-working-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Do the formulation instructions and current conditions permit placement or water adjustment, or require rejection?", "kind": "action", "id": "current-working-condition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hardening-and-performance", "name": "Hardening and performance", "description": "Connect hardening conditions with measured properties of hardened mortar.", "rationale": "Age alone does not establish mortar readiness, and results require formulation and conditioning context.", "layers": [ { "id": "hardening-conditions", "name": "Hardening conditions", "description": "Identify the relevant hardening mechanisms and environmental history.", "findings": [ { "id": "binder-dependent-development", "name": "Binder-dependent development", "description": "Record how the binder develops its hardened state and which conditions support or impede that development.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hardening mechanisms are documented for this binder system, including hydration or carbonation where relevant?", "kind": "definition", "id": "binder-dependent-development-q01" }, { "text": "What temperature, moisture, exposure, and protection history accompanied hardening?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "binder-dependent-development-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanical-and-dimensional-properties", "name": "Mechanical and dimensional properties", "description": "Assess strength and dimensional behaviour with explicit test context.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-performance-results", "name": "Qualified performance results", "description": "Keep measured performance attached to specimen preparation, test age, conditioning, and applicable acceptance criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "What strength and dimensional-change results are available, with methods, units, specimen types, and ages?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-performance-results-q01" }, { "text": "Which results are relevant to the 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what joint dimensions and surface conditions apply?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "compatible-joint-material-q01" }, { "text": "What bond and compatibility evidence supports using this mortar with that masonry combination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "compatible-joint-material-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "moisture-and-exposure-response", "name": "Moisture and exposure response", "description": "Record moisture transport, exposure demands, and observed deterioration.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-specific-condition", "name": "Exposure-specific condition", "description": "Distinguish observed cracking, erosion, debonding, and salt effects from unverified explanations of their causes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What moisture-transport results and evidence of wetting, freezing, salts, or chemical exposure are available?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-specific-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which deterioration signs warrant further testing, monitoring, or a repair assessment before selecting replacement mortar?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-specific-condition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "specification-traceability-and-safe-use", "name": "Specification, traceability, and safe use", "description": "Attach classifications, acceptance evidence, and handling requirements to the actual formulation or batch.", "rationale": "Generic mortar labels do not establish performance equivalence or formulation-specific hazards.", "layers": [ { "id": "classification-and-batch-evidence", "name": "Classification and batch evidence", "description": "Identify the specification system and evidence behind declared properties.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-mortar-declaration", "name": "Traceable mortar declaration", "description": "Link the mortar to its recipe or product, batch, specification edition, and supporting records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which product or controlled recipe, batch identifier, and specification edition define this mortar?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-mortar-declaration-q01" }, { "text": "Is acceptance based on prescribed proportions, tested performance, or another documented route, and what evidence is required?", "kind": "definition", "id": "traceable-mortar-declaration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-dependent-handling", "name": "State-dependent handling", "description": "Determine hazards and controls for dry, wet, and hardened mortar activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "formulation-specific-exposure-controls", "name": "Formulation-specific exposure controls", "description": "Use constituent and safety evidence to assess dust, wet contact, and cutting or removal activities.", "questions": [ { "text": "What safety documentation identifies relevant hazards for this formulation in dry, wet, and hardened states?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "formulation-specific-exposure-controls-q01" }, { "text": "What handling, exposure-control, storage, and waste requirements apply to the proposed activity and jurisdiction?", 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"description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Drying shrinkage, excessive water or inadequate curing can cause cracking and weak joints.", "Poor substrate preparation or unsuitable water absorption can impair bond.", "Freeze-thaw cycling and salt crystallization can damage susceptible mortar, particularly when saturated.", "Mortar that is too stiff or insufficiently permeable for adjacent masonry can contribute to damage in the masonry units.", "Wet cementitious or lime mortar can cause alkaline skin burns and eye injury; handling dry ingredients or cutting hardened mortar can generate hazardous dust, including respirable crystalline silica where present." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of mortar this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a mortar, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify construction mortar, assess its fresh or hardened condition, and judge its suitability for bonding, bedding, jointing, or repairing masonry.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "consumed or used up" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Llanka, earth mortar, firestop mortar, lime mortar, fat mortar.", "5 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 69 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a mortar, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state", "use it up, and then need more of it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by sight in any reliable way. 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a mortar sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a mortar from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a mortar is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a mortar is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a mortar is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a mortar is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a mortar is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a mortar is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a mortar passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a mortar between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a mortar, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a mortar is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a mortar.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a mortar at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a mortar there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What mortar is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name mortar unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of mortar exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How mortar behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of mortar, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is mortar incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How mortar can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective 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"text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a mortar came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a mortar and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a mortar, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a mortar, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a mortar is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a mortar is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a mortar, and in what 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