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Bags of portland cement wrapped and stacked on a pallet. Blue Circle Southern Cement works near Berrima, New South Wales, Australia.. Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.
Calcium silicate hydrate (also shown as C-S-H) is a result of the reaction between the silicate phases of Portland cement and water. This reaction typically is expressed as: 2 Ca 3 SiO 5 + 7 H 2 O → 3 CaO · 2 SiO 2 · 4 H 2 O + 3 Ca(OH) 2 + 173.6 kJ. also written in cement chemist notation, (CCN) as: 2 C 3 S + 7 H → C 3 S 2 H 4 + 3 CH + heat
Portland cement clinker (abbreviated k in the European norms) is ground to a fine powder and used as the binder in many cement products. A small amount of gypsum (less than 5 wt.%) must be added to avoid the flash setting of the tricalcium aluminate (Ca 3 Al 2 O 6 ), the most reactive mineral phase (exothermic hydration reaction) in Portland ...
Comparison of chemical and physical characteristics of Portland, fly ash, slag, and silica fume cements. This template has been created for transclusion in the articles Concrete, Cement, and Silica fume. It replaces the file at right. That file had been tagged for translation to SVG format, as if it were a graphic.
The four compounds referred as C 3 S, C 2 S, C 3 A and C 4 AF are known as the main crystalline phases of Portland cement. The phase composition of a particular cement can be quantified through a complex set of calculation known as the Bogue formula .
Calcium aluminates can form complex salts in combination with different types of anions.Two series of calcium aluminates are known in cement chemistry: AFm and AFt phases, being respectively mono- or tri-substituted with a given divalent anion X (e.g. SO 2− 4, CO 2− 3, or hosting a divalent impurity such as SeO 2− 4 [3]...), or with two units of a monovalent anion, e.g. OH −, Cl − ...
Tricalcium aluminate hydrates in the process of forming Portland cement. Using X-ray diffraction , two hydrates form, the hexahydrate abbreviated C3AH6 and a nonadecahydrate abbreviated C4AH19. In the presence of gypsum , a component of typical clinkers, the sulfate (S) forms with the formula C4ASH12.
An AFm phase is an "alumina, ferric oxide, monosubstituted" phase, or aluminate ferrite monosubstituted, or Al 2 O 3, Fe 2 O 3 mono, in cement chemist notation (CCN). AFm phases are important hydration products in the hydration of Portland cements and hydraulic cements.