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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Constr Build Mater. 2015 Oct 15;96:391–403. doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.07.186

Table 1.

Mineralogical composition of the cements used in this study, expressed as mass percent.

Phase CCRL 168 CCRL 140 White Cement
C3S 54.5 64.7 78.3
β-C2S 15.7 16.5 10.7
C3A 8.0 5.4 2.4
C4AF 7.0 7.7 0.9
Bassanite 2.3 2.2 3.5
Anhydrite 0.2 1.6 0.5
Gypsum 0.4 0.6
Arcanite 1.1 0.3 0.5
Langbeinite 0.5
Aphthitalite 1.3
Periclase 3.2 0.2
Calcite 1.1 1.3
Total Al2O3 2.1 1.7 0.5

Present as solid solution in clinker phases
K2O 0.325 0.320 0.217
MgO 0.775 0.855 0.762
SO3 0.598 0.687 0.734