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Two-way Valorization of Blast Furnace Slag: Synthesis of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate and Zeolitic Heavy Metal Adsorbent
Published on: February 21, 2017
NMR studies of water diffusion and relaxation in hydrating slag-based construction materials
N Nestle1, P Galvosas, O Geier
1University of Leipzig, Department of Interface Physics, Linnéstrasse 5, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany. Nikolaus.nestle@physik.uni-leipzig.de
Abstract:
The NMR relaxation properties of hydrating blast-furnace slag cements have recently been shown to be dominated by the effect of water self-diffusion in internal magnetic field gradients in the pastes. While this was suggested on the basis of NMR relaxometry and magnetic susceptibility data, we report here the results from first direct studies of the water self-diffusion in the hydrating paste using a specialized PFG sequence and very intensive magnetic field gradient pulses.
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