How does sodium sulfate crystallize? Implications for the decay and testing of building materials

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1527-1534

  Rodriguez Navarro, Carlos ^a   Doehne, Eric ^a   Sebastian, Eduardo ^b  

^a GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVAPORATION; HYDRATION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERSATURATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

MICROPORES; SODIUM SULFATES;

CEMENTS;

EID: 0034290859     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-8846(00)00381-1     Document Type: Article

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