
Thomas O. Mason
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Coeditor of Symposium on Point Defects and Related Properties of Ceramics 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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