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• TITLE: Peculiar Set-Retarding Effect of Miserly Amounts of Pyrocatechol on Calcium Aluminate Cement Hydration

  AUTHORS: Alexey Brykov, Mikhail Voronkov, Olga Nekrasova, Maxim Mokeev

  KEYWORDS: Pyrocatechol, Calcium Aluminate Cements, Hydration, NMR Spectroscopy

  JOURNAL NAME: Materials Sciences and Applications, Vol.9 No.5, May 17, 2018

  ABSTRACT: Pyrocatechol (benzene-1,2-diol) acts upon a calcium aluminate cement (CAC) as a very strong set and hardening retardant and a potent plasticizing agent at the same time. By studying CAC-pyrocatechol compositions using different analytical methods it was shown that pyrocatechol indeed slows CAC hydration and decreases strength of hardening stone. What makes this behavior a peculiar one is that pyrocatechol is known to accelerate Portland cement (PC) setting drastically.