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Named by Alfred Elis Törnebohm in 1897 after examining Portland cement through a microscope.

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uncountable An impure form of tricalcium silicate. After heating in the kiln, the melted material is cooled rapidly to form an assemblage of the silicates alite (also known by the cement chemistry notation C3S) and belite (C2S), tricalcium aluminate (C3A) and tetracalcium aluminoferrite (C4AF), known as clinker.

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@misc{alite_2026,
  title = {alite},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/alite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}