>
> On Monday, December 27, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Barry Comer wrote:
>
>>
>> enerally won't support the heavy loads of trucks and other equipment.
>> As for the differences, in my experience, Cement has a smooth, sandy
>> like texture, and is used for light load bearing surfaces, and/or
>> small
>> sections, for sidewalks, patios, air conditioner pads, etc. It
>> generally
>> isn't reinforced. Add gravel to cement, and you now have concrete. You
> Cement is the product that comes from the cement plant and is used to
> make concrete.
> If you put water with cement powder and spread it out and let it set
> up you have a very poor concrete slab. If you put rock or gravel and
> sand in with water you have a better grade of concrete and it is
> stronger. If you put steel reinforcement rod in it also you have very
> strong concrete. The finished product is never called cement. Cement
> is the powder that is combined with other things to make concrete. Go
> in to a store and ask for sack of cement and a sack of concrete mix
> and see what you get. The first will be a sack of portland cement
> powder and the other will be a sack of portland with sand and gravel
> in it.
Thank you
Larry Jackman
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