V@enook.cn Lesson 16 It looks like cement. Professor Boffin wants to bake a cake. I can't find the flour. He looks in the storeroom. Ah!Here's some flour! Look!My cake's ready. It books like cement. If feels like cement. It tastes like cement. Look a

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Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is cement versus concrete. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Accuracy is important. You might think concrete and cement are interchangeable, but you'll quickly find that you're mistaken when some guy at Home Depot rolls h

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Cement is a major component of concrete, the world's most widely used man-made material, an integral part of roads, bridges and buildings. But making cement requires heating limestone and other materials to very high temperatures, a process that rele

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