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Definition of Portlands
1. portland [n] - See also: portland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portlands
Literary usage of Portlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1922)
"(1) The natural portlands, which are described on pages 215-216 in detail, ...
The poorer " natural portlands " are often adulterated with slag or unburned ..."
2. The Mineral Industry (1902)
"Cements of this class are lighter than portlands, their specific gravity usually
ranging from ... Normally slag cements are slower setting than portlands. ..."
3. Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers by Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (1894)
"The average of Canadian portlands =3'11 The average of English portlands ...
It would seem advisable, therefore, to specify a minimum for portlands of'3-10. ..."
4. American Cements by Uriah Cummings (1898)
"Such a cement would test only about half as high as the present so-called portlands,
yet it would be an ideal cement. It could not be excelled, ..."
5. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1894)
"In like manner at the end of a year neat portlands average from 1.5 to '2 times
... For portlands the writer found the transverse The London R»oard of works ..."
6. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1909)
"(1) Normal portlands. Containing, with the silica and lime, both alumina and ...
(3) High Iron portlands. Containing relatively high iron, with less than 2 ..."
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