Why it matters, commodity
Cement
The binder in concrete, made by calcining limestone in kilns; foundations, slabs and footings depend on it.
- Depends on
- 0
- Depended on by
- 1
- Metrics
- 0
Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)
- Candidate
- Hypothesized
- Mechanism supported
- Causally supported
- Established relation
Systems that would feel a shortage
Downstream: what depends on it
Residential construction requires input Cement2 evidenceEstablished relation
Residential construction depends on Cement.
Mechanism
Foundations, slabs and footings are concrete, and cement is the binder in concrete with no substitute at scale.
Evidence
- documentUSGS, Cement statistics and informationusgs.govCement as the binder in concrete; construction as the end use.checked 2026-09-07
- documentU.S. Census Bureau, Characteristics of New Housingcensus.govFraming material, foundation type and other characteristics of completed homes.checked 2026-09-07
- Status
- established_identity_or_engineering_relation
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.95
- Stated strength
- 0.70
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Inputs it cannot do without
Upstream: what it depends on
No stored inputs for this entity.
Measured, from the catalog
Linked metrics
No catalog metric is linked to this entity yet.
Named on the edges that depend on it
Substitutes
No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.
Derived from curated edges
Bottleneck centrality
- Score
- 1.40
- Downstream entities
- 2
- Direct dependents
- 1
Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.
Curated paths this entity is part of
Chains
Names that resolve to this node
Aliases
- concrete binder
- portland cement
- usgs: cement (cement)
slug cement, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC