Acid-Base Cements: Their Biomedical and Industrial Applications

by Alan D. Wilson and John W. Nicholson

Book Overview

Acid-base cements have been known since the mid-nineteenth century and offer an alternative to polymerization as a route for forming solid substances. They are quick setting materials and some have unusual properties for cements, such as adhesion and translucency. They find diverse applications ranging from the biomedical to the industrial. Despite this there has been a failure to recognize them as constituting a single, well defined class of material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YZWBT2
• ISBN13: 9780521675499
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 5.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"