Cement mortar
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Description
Any cement used for mortar of masonry walls. Masonry cements usually start with a cement portland cement base with hydrated lime, crushed limestone, earth diatomaceous earth, or granulated slag additions to aid in spreading.
Synonyms and Related Terms
"mortier de ciment (Fr.); pltre enduit (Fr.); argamassa de cimento (Port.)
Authority
- G.S.Brady, G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 173
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
- Ivan Myjer, contributed information, 1998, Ivan Myjer, contributed information, 1998
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000