A reply to John Bensted's discussion of the paper “mechanism of the CaCl2 attack on portland cement”
✍ Scribed by S. Chatterji
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 35 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-8846
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