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Assertion : Setting of cement is an endothermic process.
Reason : Setting of cement involves hydration and rearrangement of the molecules of calcium aluminates and calcium silicates.

A

an oxidation process

B

a reduction process

C

a double decomposition process

D

a hydration process.

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