ADMIXTURES

1. These are natural or manufactured chemicals that are added to the mixture in concrete other
than Portland cement, water, and aggregates immediately before or during mixing - ADMIXTURE

2. These are admixtures are used for quicker setting times of concrete – ACCELERATING
ADMIXTURE

3. These are liquid chemicals added during batching concrete to produce microscopic air bubbles,
called entrained air, when concrete is mixed – AIR ENTRAINING ADMIXTURE

4. These are admixtures that are used to delay the rate of setting (hydration process) of concrete
without adversely affecting the subsequent strength development – RETARDING ADMIXTURE

5. Consist of two-part chemical system: stabilizer and retarder – HYDRATION CONTROLING

ADMIXTURE

6. Chemicals that reduces the water content of a concrete mixture for a given slump – WATER
REDUCING ADMIXTURES

7. A concrete is a highly fluid but workable concrete that can be placed with little or no vibration or
compaction while still remaining essentially free of excessive bleeding or segregation – FLOWING
CONCRETE

8. Air-entraining admixtures, Water-reducing admixtures, Plasticizers, Accelerating admixtures,

Retarding admixtures, Hydration-control admixtures, Corrosion inhibitors – CHEMICAL ADMIXTURES

9. This admixture is used in concrete for parking structures, marine structures, and bridges where
chloride salts are present. -CORROSION INHIBITORS

10. Used for buried electrical or gas lines - RED CONCRETE

11. Process that involves a mixture as a coating on the exterior side of a structure to stop a transference
or wicking of ground moisture through concrete -DAMP PROOFING

12. This admixtures have potential uses on bridge decks, critical floor slabs and buildings where cracks
and curling must be minimized - SHRINKAGE REDUCING ADMIXTURES

13. It can cause corrosion of steel reinforcement in conrete – CHLORIDE

14. Admixture that helps maintain concrete’s initial volume by counteracting settlement and bleeding
by generating bubbles in the mix. – Gas-forming Admixture
15. Mineral admixtures are those admixtures which are obtain from industries- INDUSTRIAL BY-
PRODUCTS
16. Materials that have been processed for the sole purpose of producing a pozzolan. - RAW OR
CALCINED NATURAL MINERALS
17. Materials containing reactive silica which in themselves possess little or no cementitious value but
which combines with lime in finely divided form in the presence of water to produce cementing
compounds. – Pozzolanas
18. Admixtures that increase the cohesiveness of concrete to a level that allows limited exposure to
water with little loss of cement. - Anti-washout admixtures
19. Admixtures that reduce the rate at which water under pressure is transmitted through concrete. –
Permeability reducing admixture
20. Give one example of Pozollanas - VOLCANIC TUFF, PERLITES, PUMICE