Construction: cement vs concrete

Self-tutoring about construction definitions: the tutor mentions the difference between cement and concrete.

I recall when I was a kid, perhaps in grade four or five, one of my fellow students had a bottle of rubber cement. It was used, when used as intended, to stick pieces of paper together. In the construction of craft projects, it was a fastener rather than building blocks.

That pretty much illustrates the difference between cement and concrete. Cement is used to bind structural elements together, but is not, by itself, a building block. Therefore, a wall is made of concrete, not cement. However, cement is the ingredient of the concrete that sticks it together.

Source:

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Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.

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