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  2. Mortar (masonry) - Wikipedia

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    Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colours or patterns to masonry walls.

  3. Compressed earth block - Wikipedia

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    CEBs are assembled onto walls using standard bricklaying and masonry techniques. The mortar may be a simple slurry made of the same soil/clay mix without aggregate, spread or brushed very thinly between the blocks for bonding, or cement mortar may also be used for high strength, or when construction during freeze-thaw cycles causes stability ...

  4. Cement - Wikipedia

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    A cement is a binder, a chemical substance 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 together. Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, produces concrete. Concrete is the most ...

  5. What's the Actual Difference Between Cement and Concrete? - AOL

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    When the water, aggregates, and Portland cement are combined, the mix starts to harden and solidify into the durable, rock-solid masses. Precast concrete is the type of concrete that’s poured ...

  6. Shotcrete - Wikipedia

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    Shotcrete is an all-inclusive term for spraying concrete or mortar with either a dry or wet mix process. However, shotcrete may also sometimes be used to distinguish wet-mix from the dry-mix method. The term shotcrete was first defined by the American Railway Engineers Association (AREA) in the early 1930s. [6] By 1951, shotcrete had become the ...

  7. Lime mortar - Wikipedia

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    This movement breaks the weakest part of the wall, and with Portland cement mortar this is usually the masonry. When lime mortar is used, the lime is the weaker element, and the mortar cracks in preference to the masonry. This results in much less damage, and is relatively simple to repair. Lime mortar is more porous than cement mortars, and it ...

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