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... Cement Paste Viscous paste and hardened product of a mixture of cement powder and water. Concrete A composite material that consists essentially of a binding medium in which are embedded particles or fragments of aggregate; in a hydraulic-cement concrete, the binder is formed from a mixture of hydraulic cement and water (see ASTM-C125-94~.
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... Pozzolans Siliceous and aluminous materials that possess little or no cementitious value in themselves but that will in finely divided form and in the presence of moisture-chemically react with calcium hydroxide at ordinary temperatures to form compounds possessing cementitious properties (e.g., fly ash, silica fume, rice husk ash, volcanic ash)


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