Cement

Abstract

THE need for a handy text-book on cement, which should include the modern processes of manufacture and also a review of the chemical aspects of the subject, has been felt for some time, and this work of Mr. Blount should go far towards meeting the requirements. The author has an extensive practical experience of cement manufacture and testing, and is accustomed to present accounts of the industrial processes in a readable form. With the exception of a few passages, the work is devoted to Portland cement, and the processes of manufacture selected for description are almost exclusively those which are adopted in England. Rather fuller references to Continental and American methods would have been welcome, since those methods, almost similar in principle, present great differences of practical detail.

Cement.

By Bertram Blount. Assisted by William H. Woodcock and Henry J. Gillett. (Monographs on Industrial Chemistry.) Pp. xii + 284. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920.) Price 18s. net.