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alite

alite noun: an impure form of tricalcium silicate.

Noun

alite (uncountable)

  1. An impure form of tricalcium silicate.
    • After heating in the kiln, the melted material is cooled rapidly to form an assemblage of the silicates alite (also known by the cement chemistry notation C3S) and belite (C2S), tricalcium aluminate (C3A) and tetracalcium aluminoferrite (C4AF), known as clinker.2020 September 22, G. Habert, S. A. Miller, V. M. John, J. L. Provis, A. Favier, A. Horvath & K. L. Scrivener, “Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete...

Origin of alite

Named by Alfred Elis Törnebohm in 1897 after examining Portland cement through a microscope.

Questions about alite

What does alite mean?
Alite means an impure form of tricalcium silicate.
What part of speech is alite?
Alite is a noun.

Words near alite in the dictionary

  1. Alitagtag
  2. Alitalia
  3. alitame
  4. Alitao
  5. Alitap
  6. alite
  7. aliter
  8. aliteracy
  9. aliterate
  10. aliterates
  11. alitize

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