Can Mix Water Enhancer™ be used in mixes containing silica fume/microsilica?
(A) Yes. However, where utilizing Mix Water Enhancer™ in a concrete containing silica fume or microsilica, most if not all of the silica fume or microsilica may be omitted with little or no loss to objective performance values. If however, total silica fume or microsilica deletion is undesirable, the silica fume or microsilica content may be reduced by up to 75% without objective performance value loss. Mix Water Enhancer™ provides numerous benefits to concrete similar to those of silica fume or microsilica, including their fine solids effect. The fine solids effect in concrete utilizing Mix Water Enhancer™ is achieved through increased utilization of each cement particle. This result in smaller than usual particle cores to act as aggregate. These cement particle cores that are left behind in the concrete to act as filler aggregate, are smaller than usual, between sand and cement grain sizes. The concrete becomes more impermeable and resistant to chloride induced corrosion, as with sil
