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The resulting cement, produced from the formerly discarded grappiers, was of much higher quality than that obtained from the unsintered material. This fact was firmly established by the English cement manufacturer L. C. Johnson in 1845, and the term "portland cement" has since been applied solely to the cement made from the sintered material. This period marks the real beginning of the portland cement industry.

Like millstones, the teeth grind the food between flat but roughened surfaces. The teeth, in addition to enamel and dentine, have a third substance, called cement, present on the crowns. (Cement occurs in man only as a thin layer on the roots of the teeth.) The enamel folds ii the dentine and cement in a complicated pattei and wear causes the harder enamel to protru slightly as grinding ridges that are oriented as to be most effective when the tooth rows slii past one another from front to back.

About 98% of the cement produced in the United States is Portland cement, which is not a brand name but a type of hydraulic cement. The name was given in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin, a bricklayer of Leeds, England, to a hydraulic lime that he patented, because when set with water and sand, it resembled a natural limestone quarried on the Isle of Portland in England. At about the same time it was discovered that an excellent cement could be made by pulverizing the nodules, called grappiers, which occasionally became sintered (that is, formed into a non-porous solid without melting) when hydraulic lime was fired.