no matter how big the concrete slab is, it will never float
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Pouring a concrete slab is the pouring of a fresh unset concrete mix into a prepared area, where it is finished by floating etc to give the required surface, and it sets to form a slab.
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No. Concrete won't bond to concrete. It will end up cracking.
Also reffered to as 'slab footing' and it consists of concrete footing beams integrated into the concrete floor slab.
Floating slab is a type of mat foundation. It consists of a hollow mat formed by a grid of thick reinforced concrete walls between two thick reinforced concrete slabs. The weight of the soil excavated from the ground is equal to the weight of the entire building, so that pressure on the soil is unchanged from the original condition, making the building float on the soil