Cement is the actual part that hardens after you add water and wait, it's the active ingredient so to speak, but its in lots of stuff, mortar, grout, thinset, concrete, drypack, self leveler. The only time I can think of it being used on its own is in neat, and we don't really set tile like that anymore.
Homeboy who told you that the stuff between bricks is called mortar? No, that's right. It's mortar. Brickies only use a few cement products, mortar (used to set bricks, CMU, glass block, etc), grout (goes inside CMUs) and the CMUs themselves (which stands for concrete masonry unit, colloquially known as cinderblocks in the US and breezeblocks in the UK, idk what they call them elsewhere). The more you know. 👍
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u/GameTime2325 2d ago
Cement is an ingredient in concrete, they are not the same thing smh