What's the difference between cement and concrete?

Answer 1

Cement: The binding element in both concrete and mortar.

Concrete: A product composed of cement, sand and gravel or other coarse aggregate. When water is mixed in with this product, it activates the cement, which is the element responsible for binding the mix together to form one solid object.

Answer 2

The terms "cement," "concrete" and "mortar" are used almost interchangeably by the layman in conversations about cement mixing. However, the terms refer to substances that have three distinct purposes:
Cement: The binding element in both concrete and mortar.
concrete: A product composed of cement, sand and gravel or other coarse aggregate. When water is mixed in with this product, it activates the cement, which is the element responsible for binding the mix together to form one solid object.
mortar: A product composed of cement and sand. When water is mixed in with this product, the cement is activated. Whereas concrete can stand alone, mortar is used to hold together bricks, stones or other such components.Cement mixing therefore, properly speaking, refers to using cement in the mixing of mortar or concrete.

Answer 3

Concrete is made with cement.


In general the terms are interchangeable.

For those in the industry cement is one of the components in concrete.

Concrete is basically

6% Air
11% Cement (85% lime & silica)
41% gravel or crushed stone
26% sand or (fines)
16% water

Answer 4

Cement is the fine powdery grey stuff. Concrete is the mixture of cement,sand,gravel,and water. Then it's concrete.

Answer 5

cover with cement; "concrete the walls";
concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement; "they stood on the grey cement beside the pool";

Answer 6

I was always told that cement was made with powdered stone, concrete is made with crushed rock.

Answer 7

Cement is the mortar, Concrete is mortar, sand and aggregate mixed.

Answer 8

cement is the dry substance that is mixed with water and gravel and sand and sometimes other admixtures to make concrete.
after it is mixed together and put in place and it becomes hard, it is the concrete.
the terms are frequently used the wrong way.

Answer 9

The mix is smoother for concrete.

Answer 10

concrete is a mixing of several material which one of them is cement.
weight percent of each material depends on the specification that you have and actually there are many specification