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Is Lithium Silicate Toxic?
Lithium silicate is preferred over sodium and potassium silicates for concrete surface treatments, specialty paints or coatings, and glazes just to name a few. It is an ionic compound that uses lit...
How Do You Reduce Alkali-Silica Reactions in Concrete?
It can take years for an alkali-silica reaction (ASR) to show up in your concrete. Once it does, however, it cracks your concrete apart, causing extensive damage. This deleterious swelling reaction...
How Do You Make Dry Mortar Mix?
Dry mortar is a combination of mixed raw materials such as sand and cement in dry form. This can also contain additives as well as polymers. Dry mortar is used in construction such as joining brick...
How Do You Use Lithium Silicate?
When it comes to concrete floor treatment, lithium silicate is the leading concrete densifier with multiple uses. In fact, lithium silicates have increasingly gained popularity in the recent past c...
How Do You Use Ready Mix Mortar?
Ready-mix mortar is a binding paste or powder used in numerous construction operations such as filling gaps and wall construction. For over twenty years, Bisley International has been a leader in t...
What are Admixtures and What are Different Types of Admixtures?
Admixture is defined as a material besides concrete ingredients like aggregates, water, cement, and sand, mixed with the concrete to improve some of its properties in a hardened or fresh state. The...
What is Admixture in Construction?
Concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials globally. Generally, it’s prepared by mixing four ingredients—cement, water, sand, and aggregate. But this mixture is just regular...
What is Lithium Nitrate Used For?
Lithium nitrate is a lithium salt of aqua fortis (nitric acid), an alkali metal nitrate. The chemical formula of lithium nitrate is. This lithium salt is a product of the chemical reaction between ...
What Does Lithium Silicate Do to Concrete?
What Is Lithium Silicate? Lithium silicate is a compound in which lithium is used as the transporting agent to carry the silicate into its desired application. Used in a variety of applications, in...
