Ocean acidification describes the progressive, global reduction in seawater pH that is currently underway because of the accelerating oceanic uptake of atmospheric CO(2). Acidification is expected to reduce coral reef calcification and increase reef dissolution. Inorganic cementation in reefs describes the precipitation of CaCO(3) that acts to bind framework components and occlude porosity. Lit...

Northwest Africa (NWA) 5790 is the most recently discovered member of the nakhlite group. Its mineralogy differs from the other nakhlites with a high abundance mesostasis (38.1 3.6 vol%) and scarcity of olivine (4.0 2.2 vol%). Furthermore, zoning of augite phenocrysts, and other petrographic and chemical characteristics suggest that NWA 5790 samples the chilled margin of its parent lava flow/si...

Although seawater exposure is relatively common, there are few studies that couple the microscopic characterization to mechanical/ macroscopic behavior of cement-based materials, by using a reformulation with all its multiple salts in laboratory. The experimental study includes effect salinity, cement type, and specimens geometry on degradation phenomenon. solution was recomposed laboratory dis...

A persistent question in industrial economics is the underpinning of the link between market concentration and price. How much of the link can be attributed to market power and how much to market efficiency? This paper develops a theoretical model to address that question. Applied to the US portland cement industry, the model indicates that both impacts matter. In relative terms, however, the m...

Cement-based material is one of the most versatile and largest amounts of building materials which can not only be used in load-bearing structure but also be used as decoration materials, like brick, wallboard, and tile. However, white calcium carbonate always be found on the surface of wallboard. This phenomenon is generally called efflorescence, which has no damage to wallboard, but has aesth...

This paper explores, for the first time, the possibility of carbonating waste metallic iron powder to develop sustainable binder systems for concrete. The fundamental premise of this work is that metallic iron will react with aqueous CO2 under controlled conditions to form complex iron carbonates which have binding capabilities. Chosen additives containing silica and alumina are added to facili...

High-density, high-permanence forms of carbon storage are in demand to save space on land or at sea while allowing the world reach its climate targets. Biochar and calcium carbonate two such that have been considered largely separately literature for storage. In this paper, we consider how biochar might interact when they used together with cement as part a system, ideally form carbon-neutral c...

The use of industrial by-products as admixture to ASTM Type I cement (ordinary Portland cement (OPC)) was investigated with the objective of improving the solidification of organic marine clayey soils. The industrial by-products considered in this paper were oyster-shell powder (OSP), steelmaking slag dust (SMS) and fuel-gas-desulfurized (FGD) gypsum. The industrial by-products were added to OP...

The rate of resorption calcium phosphate self-hardening materials for bone regeneration can be changed by changing the phase composition. Ca3(PO4)2/CaCO3/Ca(H2PO4)2·H2O/Na2HPO4·12H2O system is important synthesis self-curing bioactive with variable rates ratios initial components. Cement compositions in twelve figurative points a four-component composition diagram at fixed content α-Ca3(PO4)2 w...