Research Letters in Materials Science
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 854701, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/854701
Research Letter

The Determination of Bound Water in Waste Phosphatic Clay

Mahir Dham,1 Bjorn Birgisson,2 and Andrew J. Boyd3

1Department of Conctruction Materials, Nanodynamics Inc., Columbus, OH 43212, USA
2Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
3Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2K6, Canada

Received 16 March 2009; Accepted 28 May 2009

Academic Editor: Pearl Lee-Sullivan

Copyright © 2009 Mahir Dham et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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