What are the ingredients of cement?


Question:Portland cement

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I hate to link to Wikipedia, but a proper answer is rather complex and the article there is actually rather complete and accurate. Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/portland_ce...


Flour and water lol.
rocks,Glue(?)
Lime, sand, gravel, water, jimmy hoffa.
lime, clay, and water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cement#port...
Heated ground limestone and clay mixture.
Cement is mostly lime , pulverized limestone and clay.

Once you mix it with sand and water it becomes mortar.

Once you mix it with sand and stone or other agregates and water it becomes concreate.
Do you mean concrete, that holds things together or for roads and bridges? It can be confusing because many call concrete cement. Concrete that is being mixed in the drum truck is made of cement (a dust), rock, sand, water, air. For some projects they will add flyash or other lighter weight additives and lower the actual amount of cement included.
cement is made from lime , silica , alumina , iron oxide and gypsum...

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