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um, they'll be hard. duh.

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concrete is made of cement, sand and aggregate (stone, gravel, etc) so its a redundant question. Cement by itself is not very strong, its is a binder used to make concrete. In some cases sand is also the aggregate (QuickCrete is one product name)

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