Aluminous cement

Description

A quick-setting cement that has a high proportion of Bauxite. Alumina and alumina-silica cements are very refractory and have high thermal conductivity (Brady 1971).

Synonyms and Related Terms

alumina cement; aluminate cement; high speed cement; high alumina cement; HAC

Sources Checked for Data in Record

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 660

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

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