Insufficient quantity of water

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• Reduction in the quantity of mixing water which is possible by the use of plasticizers and admixture varies from
• Smaller size aggregates require less quantity of water for lubrication.
• Excess quantity of water
• Total…….. % of water by weight of water by weight of cement is required for complete hydration.
• If L1=Measurement taken after 24 hours of immersion in water at a temp. of 27 ± 20oC and L2=Measurement taken after 3 hours of immersion in water at boiling temperature. Then what is soundness of cement?
• The separation of water or water-cement mixture from the freshly mixed concrete is known as bleeding.
• To perform the soundness test, the water is added to the cement at the rate of 0.72 P by weight of cement, where P is the percentage of water required for normal consistency paste.
• If 50 kg of fine aggregates and 100 kg of coarse aggregates are mixed in a concrete whose water-cement ratio is 0.6, the weight of water required for harsh mix is
• A small quantity of …………. % of gypsum is added to prevent flash-setting of the cement.
• Which of the following ingredient of cement when added in excess quantity, causes the cement to set slowly?