Does Efflorein® Mark 2 powder disperse as quickly as a liquid admixture?
Yes, but good concrete / mortar needs to be mixed well! It has been found and researched here in Australia that in a typical pre-mixed concrete transit mixer with the mixing barrel having baffles (that is, not a forced action mixer with powered moving blades), at the barrel’s mixing speed (18 RPM) it takes at least ten (10) minutes for any admixture – powder or liquid that is added to say a five (5) cubic metre batch load of concrete to completely disperse. It is incorrect to say that liquid admixtures are dispersed quicker than a particular powder type in a particular grade of concrete at a given slump or measurement of (semi) liquid consistency in a given mixing time. Most liquid admixtures are solutions like sugar in water and typically have only 40% to 60% active solids – say for example 60% solids in 40% water. Efflorein® Mark 2 is 100% active solids. A powder is the only way to make an admixture have 100% active solids.
