how does constantly turning cement in a truck keep it from drying out/hardening

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I see cement trucks constantly turning the cement, I get that it may just be keeping it thoroughly mixed so no one part becomes more dried than the rest. Is that all that’s happening here?

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timing is everything

the churning does help to slow the process to give everyone a larger time window tho

but once the chemical process is started , ie by adding water to the dry concrete powder , the curing is starting and is only stopped by chemically destabilizing the cure [ie via sugar/glucose]

[https://www.quora.com/What-happens-if-sugar-is-put-in-concrete](https://www.quora.com/What-happens-if-sugar-is-put-in-concrete)

obvs ratios and concentrations/percentages matter

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