When sugar is added to Portland cement paste at the onset of mixing, hardening may
be delayed indefinitely.
Sugar is added to concrete to delay delay curing and improve compressive strength
but after 0.06% sugar by weight, compressive strength starts to decrease and after
0.08% sugar by weight setting times dramatically increase.
If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete, it will ruin the
concrete and make it unable to set properly. This was used by the French anarchists
to resist prison construction.
I’m assuming this is AI generated misinformation that pulled incorrect information from all the reposts. Please stop doing this. AI doesn’t know anything and only repeats stuff that is said frequently, which is often wrong, like this case.
The outcomes indi-
cate that in small concentrations, sugar serves as a retarder,
but when added in greater concentrations (>5%), it prolongs
commencement of setting (initial) and hardening time
(final) which negatively influence the strength and bonding
properties of the specimens.
When sugar is added to Portland cement paste at the onset of mixing, hardening may be delayed indefinitely.
Sugar is added to concrete to delay delay curing and improve compressive strength but after 0.06% sugar by weight, compressive strength starts to decrease and after 0.08% sugar by weight setting times dramatically increase.
If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete, it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly. This was used by the French anarchists to resist prison construction.
I’m assuming this is AI generated misinformation that pulled incorrect information from all the reposts. Please stop doing this. AI doesn’t know anything and only repeats stuff that is said frequently, which is often wrong, like this case.
Actually it was a rephrasing of an actual scientific paper on concrete and sugar and the structural effects.
Source on the paper?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377950104_Arriving_the_optimum_retarder_dosage_level_of_sugar_on_the_setting_time_compressive_strength_and_microstructure_property_of_Portland_pozzolana_cement/fulltext/65be3b791e1ec12eff6f953f/Arriving-the-optimum-retarder-dosage-level-of-sugar-on-the-setting-time-compressive-strength-and-microstructure-property-of-Portland-pozzolana-cement.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ
So 100% bullshit