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Portland cement

What can you do using cement? Funny stuff made of cement

It is well known that cement is the most used construction material in the world. In the mind of most of people, cement is a kind of grey powder and only used as construction material, to build gardens, bridges, road etc. However, we can do more with cement, here are nice pictures showing some stuff […]

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Blended cement

The Influence of Slag on the Hydration of Cement

These following conclusions are summarized from the work of Kocaba’s PhD thesis. alite: no influence is shown on the consumption of alite measured by XRD. belite: the substitution of cement by both slags seems to result in a delay in the hydration of belite in the first days. aluminate phase: there is a filler effect […]

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Portland cement

The Importance of Cement and its Future

Concrete is the most used material in the world because of its cheap price and large quantity. It is needless to say concrete is made of cement. However, cement is also a criticized material by the public, for its intensive CO2 emission from production process. The production of cement accounts for about 5-8% of the […]