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(1)THE author is chemist to the Dexter Portland Cement Co., and the analytical methods described have all been used to some extent in his laboratory. The treatise is a second edition of a small manual, published some four years ago, on the chemical and physical examination of Portland cement. In preparing this new edition, a consideraable amount of fresh matter dealing with the manufacture of Portland cement has been added. The first two chapters, which form an introduction to the book, are devoted to the history of the development of the Portland cement industry in America; the growth in the total consumption, and the growth in the consumption per head of population, have both increased in a remarkable degree during the last sixteen years—in 1890 the total production in the United States was 335,000 barrels, and by 1904 this had increased to more than 26½ million barrels; but even in that year the consumption was in excess of the domestic production, and more than two million barrels had to be imported.
(1) Portland Cement: its Composition, Raw Materials, Manufacture, Testing, and Analysis.
By Richard K. Meade. Pp. viii + 385. (Easton Pa.: The Chemical Publishing Co., 1906.) Price 14s. 6d. net.
(2) Reinforced Concrete.
By C. F. Marsh W. Dunn. Third edition revised and enlarged. Pp. vii + 654. (London: Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 1906.) Price 31s. 6d.
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B., T. (1) Portland Cement: its Composition, Raw Materials, Manufacture, Testing, and Analysis (2) Reinforced Concrete . Nature 76, 123–124 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076123b0
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