Cement chemist notation

Cement chemist notation (CCN) was deleloped to simplify the formulas cement chemists use on a daily basis. It is a sort of "short hand" way of writing the chemical formula of oxides of calcium, silicon, and various metals. Below is a list of all of the abreviations used:

CCN: Actual Formula (if someone can turn this into pretty-print it'd be great) (S(bar) means an upper-case S with a bar over it) C: CaO

S: SiO2

A: Al2O3

F: Fe2O3

T: TiO2

M: MgO

K: K20

N: Na2O

H: H2O

S(bar): CaSO4

These oxides are used to build more complex molecules such as:

C3S: 3(CaO)*SiO2

C2S: 2(CaO)*SiO2

C3A: 3(Cao)*Al2O3

C4AF: 4(CaO)*Al2O3*Fe2O3

Hydration products are more complicated because many of the products have nearly the same formula and some are solid-solutions with overlapping formula. Some examples are below:

CSH: 2(CaO)*SiO2*0.9-1.25(H2O) and/or CaO*SiO2*1.1(H2O) and/or 0.8-1.5(CaO)*SiO2*1.0-2.5(H2O) and more!

CAH: Belive it or not this is even more complex that CSH and I cannot explain it here without infringing on copywrighted material.

Aft: C3AS(bar)3H30-32

Afm: C2AS(bar)H12