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Temperatures below boiling point - commonly about 700C, are used to quicken the curing of mass-produced items such as concrete blocks and pipes. This can shorten the curing from a few days to a few hours.

However, in large concrete pours, such as would be found in a mass concrete dam, the heat generated by the self curing process could induce thermal expansion stresses, and this is countered by having cooling pipes installed in the dam body.

Temperatures much elevated, could boil away the water of crystallization from the various crystal processes upon which the concrete depends for its strength. Effectively, you would be 'calcining' the crystals once again!

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