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Definition of Hydraulic cement
1. Noun. A cement that hardens under water; made by heating limestone and clay in a kiln and pulverizing the result.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydraulic Cement
Literary usage of Hydraulic cement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1908)
"Inasmuch as the manufacture of hydraulic cement may be an important industry ...
They are essentially a mixture of hydraulic cement and free oxide of lime. ..."
2. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"Notice that common lime differs from hydraulic lime and hydraulic cement in ...
Common lime and hydraulic lime differ from hydraulic cement in that the two ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This material, also known as common cement, hydraulic cement, ... The composition
of Rosendale cement rock and natural hydraulic cement is as follows: ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"hydraulic cement. A calcareous cement (see above) which has the property of ...
Slate Cement A. A hydraulic cement manufactured from argillaceous slate. ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"... for limestones of exceptional value for the production of hydraulic cement.
In one of the quarries at this place we are fortunately able Horizontals, ..."
6. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1909)
"The total quantity of hydraulic cement exported from the United States in 1906 was
... 1905: TABLE I.* EXPORTS OF hydraulic cement, 1900-1906, IN BARRELS. ..."
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