Karen Scrivener, Aditya Kumar, Caterina Gianocca
The basic nature of alkali hydroxides (NaOH, KOH) when added to mixing water, increases the pH in proportion to the level of salt addition. For alite (impure tricalcium silicate; MIII-Ca3SiO5) hydration, this pH increase accelerates the rate of hydration a ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2012