HARDENING AND EFFLORESCENCE RESISTANCE OF CEMENT MORTARS MODIFIED BY BLACK SHALE
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The paper presents results of research into plaster coating of brick walls in humid premises. It is found that the addition of black shale and waste from flotation gold extraction from ores in the amount of 10 % of the cement bulk, increases the structure formation and strength of mortars by 34 %. X-ray phase and differential thermal analyses show that the increase in the rate of structure formation of mortars is due to the interaction of hydraulically active ground black shale with portlandite accompanied by the formation of calcium hydrosilicates. In mortars with the black shale addition, 1–2 nm pores form, which explain the increased resistance of mortars to the effloresce formation on the surface of plaster coatings of brick walls.