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Cement Chemistry and Sustainable Cementitious Materials
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Learn the basics of cement chemistry and laboratory best practices for assessment of its key properties.
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Lectures in this MOOC (41)
Cement Chemistry and Sustainable Cementitious MaterialsMOOC: Cement Chemistry and Sustainable Cementitious Materials
Explores the production and analysis of low-carbon cement for sustainable construction materials.
Introduction to LC³: Sustainable Cement ProductionMOOC: Cement Chemistry and Sustainable Cementitious Materials
Introduces LC³, a sustainable cement technology that reduces CO₂ emissions.
Introduction to LC³: Sustainable Cement ProductionMOOC: Cement Chemistry and Sustainable Cementitious Materials
Explores LC³, a sustainable cement production technology aiming to reduce CO₂ emissions by replacing cement clinker with supplementary materials.
Finding Suitable Clays: Selection and Mining ProcessMOOC: Cement Chemistry and Sustainable Cementitious Materials
Explains the process of finding suitable clays for LC³ production and emphasizes the importance of detailed field investigation.
Finding suitable clays: Kaolinite and Clay MineralsMOOC: Cement Chemistry and Sustainable Cementitious Materials
Explores the main differences between kaolinite and other clay minerals and the process of finding suitable clay deposits.
Related concepts (305)
Cement
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 (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 in existence and is behind only water as the planet's most-consumed resource.
Hydrate
In chemistry, a hydrate is a substance that contains water or its constituent elements. The chemical state of the water varies widely between different classes of hydrates, some of which were so labeled before their chemical structure was understood. water of crystallization Hydrates are inorganic salts "containing water molecules combined in a definite ratio as an integral part of the crystal" that are either bound to a metal center or that have crystallized with the metal complex.
Portland cement
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. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the early 19th century by Joseph Aspdin, and is usually made from limestone. It is a fine powder, produced by heating limestone and clay minerals in a kiln to form clinker, grinding the clinker, and adding 2 to 3 percent of gypsum. Several types of portland cement are available.
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