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Cement

A cement is a binder used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together. Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, produces concrete. Concrete is the most widely used material…

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Chemistry

History

Types

Manufacture

Setting, hardening and curing

Safety issues

Cement industry in the world

Environmental impacts

Reduced-footprint cement

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Cement

Nodes214
Edges213
Triples234
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009346
Components1

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Cement

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related to 20th century · 23
Cement → Also, Aqueduct, Because, Bertrain, But, Calcium, France, Highways, In, It, Jules Bied, New Paltz, New York, New York City's Catskill, New York Commissioner, Portland, Rosendale, Rosendale-Portland, Thomas Edison, Union
related to 19th century · 16
Cement → Apparently, Art, Edgar Dobbs, Egor Cheliev, Frenchman Louis Vicat, Good Mortar, His, In Russia, Petersburg, Portland, Prepare, Smeaton's, Southwark, St, Treatise, Vicat
related to Ancient Greece and Rome · 16
Cement → Ancient Greeks, Ancient Macedonians, Chapter VI, Crete, De Architectura, Greeks, Liber II, Lime, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Minoans, Nobody, Pozzolana, Pozzolanic, Roman, Sec, There
related to CO 2 absorption · 12
Cement → As, Ca, CaCO3, Carbonation, CO, CO2, However, Hydrated, It, OH, Portland, This
related to Heavy metal emissions in the air · 11
Cement → As, Cd, Environmental, FeS2, Heavy, Hg, In, PbS, Tl, United States, ZnS
related to Other · 11
Cement → Only, Pantheon, Portland, Pozzolan-lime, Roman, Romans, Rome, Slag-lime, The, These, They
related to CO 2 emissions · 10
Cement → Carbon, Chatham House, CO, CO2, European Union, In, Nearly, Portland, The, This
related to Use of alternative fuels and by-products materials · 10
Cement → Because, Clinker, For, Furthermore, GJ, Most, Scrap, Selected, The, These
related to 18th century · 9
Cement → British, Eddystone Lighthouse, English Channel, French, He, John Smeaton, Smeaton, Smeaton's Tower, The
related to Heavy metals present in the clinker · 8
Cement → As, Chromium, Cr, CrO42, FeSO4, III, Nickel, The

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Cementis abinder used for construction that sets0.90text
Cementis ahard0.90text
Cementis abasic ingredient of concrete0.90text
Cementis acementitious material that meets or exceeds the functional performance capabilities of Portland cement0.90text
Portland cement setinstance ofHydraulic cements0.80text
become adhesive through a chemical reaction between the dry ingredientsinstance ofHydraulic cements0.80text
waterinstance ofHydraulic cements0.80text
canalsinstance ofbut medieval masons and some military engineers actively used hydraulic cement in structures0.80text
fortressesinstance ofbut medieval masons and some military engineers actively used hydraulic cement in structures0.80text
harborsinstance ofbut medieval masons and some military engineers actively used hydraulic cement in structures0.80text
and shipbuilding facilitiesinstance ofbut medieval masons and some military engineers actively used hydraulic cement in structures0.80text
high-purity metakaolininstance ofand white supplementary materials0.80text

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