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Hydraulic cement.
A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.
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v. t.
To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
n.
A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.
v. i.
To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.
n.
To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
n.
One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
a.
Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
n.
The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
A person or thing that cements.
n.
The act or process of cementing.
n.
A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
imp. & p. p.
of Cement
n.
The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
n.
To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
a.
Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.
v. i.
To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
n.
Of the nature of cement.
v. t.
To separate, as things cemented or luted; to take the lute or the clay from.
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