Cement

Closeup of cement

Description

1) A strong adhesive. Examples are rubber cement and cellulose cement.

2) A finely powdered inorganic material that can be mixed with water then dried to form a solid, durable mass. Examples of cement materials are plaster, lime, pozzolan cement and portland cement.

3) A natural mineral material, usually chemically precipitated, that occurs in the spaces among the individual grains of a consolidated sedimentary rock, thereby binding the grains together as a rigid mass. Common cements are silica, carbonates, and iron oxides.

KC Cement Plant, aerial view

Synonyms and Related Terms

ciment (Fr.); caementum (Lat.); cement (Dan., Ned., Pol., Sven.); Zement (Deut.); cemento (Esp.); sement (Nor.); cimento (Port.);

Additional Images

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  Portland cement quarry

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  Lehigh Portland cement quarry, Iola

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  Cement limestone quarry

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  Portland cement company, Iola

Authority

• Submitted information Comment: José Delgado Rodrigues, LNEC, 2009.

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• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: Cement. Retrieved May 25, 2003, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.

• Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982

• Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Glyn E. Daniel, ed., Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, 1977

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• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement (Accessed Mar. 1, 2006)

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• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000