Use in Ceramics, Glass, and Oxide Chemistry
The cement chemist notation is not restricted to cement applications but is in fact a more general notation of oxide chemistry applicable to other domains than cement chemistry sensu stricto.
For instance, in ceramics applications, the kaolinite formula can also be written in terms of oxides, thus the corresponding formula for kaolinite,
- Al2Si2O5(OH)4,
is
- Al2O3 • 2SiO2 • 2H2O
or in CCN
- AS2H2.
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