Engineering / Construction Definitions

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Admixture – Material other than water, aggregate or hydraulic cement, used as an ingredient of concrete and added to the concrete before or during its mixing to modify its properties.

Aggregate – Granular material, such as sand, gravel, crushed stone and iron blast-furnace slag, used with a cement-forming medium to form a hydraulic cement concrete or mortar.