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Pierre-Claude Aitcin & Sidney Mindess
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Production of Portland cement is responsible for about seven percent of the world”s greenhouse gas emissions. The pressure to make the production of concrete more sustainable, or ‘greener’, is considerable and increasing. This requires a wholesale shift in processes, materials and methods in the concrete industry. Pure Portland cement will nee

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Format PDF ● Pages 328 ● ISBN 9781482266696 ● Publisher CRC Press ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6785877 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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