Why is it a practice to water newly laden concrete and not letting it dry out too much? Supposedly this makes it stronger but how?

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Why is it a practice to water newly laden concrete and not letting it dry out too much? Supposedly this makes it stronger but how?

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Curing concrete creates heat.

It’s also evaporating the water out of itself.

Watering the slab prolongs this process resulting in harder concrete.

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