Frederick M. Lea
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LOCATION: Newton Abbot, United Kingdom
Director of Building Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Watford, England, 1946–65. Author of The Chemistry of Cement and Concrete and others.
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Cement, in general, adhesive substances of all kinds, but, in a narrower sense, the binding materials used in building and civil engineering construction. Cements of this kind are finely ground powders that, when mixed with water, set to a hard mass. Setting and hardening result from hydration,…
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