A reply to S. Chatterji's discussion of “a multi-method study of C3S hydration”
✍ Scribed by L.S.Dent Glasser; E.E. Lachowski; K. Mohan; H.F.W. Taylor
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-8846
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✦ Synopsis
We did not invent Type III C-S-H. Diamond (1) defined the four types on the basis of his own SEM studies. He neither drilled nor ground his samples, and the main argument of Chatterji's paragraph # l is thus false.
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