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Interaction Between Naphthalene Sulfonate and Silica Fume in Portland Cement Pastes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
Abstract
Portland cement pastes were mixed with predissolved naphthalene sulfonate superplasticizer at normal water:cement ratios. Solutions were separated from the fresh pastes at intervals and the residual concentration of the superplasticizer determined by UV spectrophotometry. At low dosage levels essentially all of the superplasticizer was found to be removed from solution within a few minutes; at high dosage levels a substantial concentration was maintained in solution at least to approximately the time of set. In pastes in which silica fume replaced 10% by weight of the cement, it was found that the incorporation of silica fume significantly increased the uptake of superplasticizer. In separate trials it was found that the silica fume by itself adsorbed little superplasticizer, even from high pH solution simulating that of cement paste.
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