What is the best type of cement?

Selection of cement depends upon your requirement. There are many different types of cement each has their own specific use. 

 

 Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC):

 Rapid Hardening cement:

 Low heat portland cement: – 

 Sulphate Resisting Portland Cement:-

 High alumina Cement:-

 Blast furnace slag cement:-

 Coloured Cement:-

 Pozzolana cement :-

 Air-entraining cement:-

 Hydrophobic cement:- 

 Expansive cement:-

 White Cement:-

 Waterproof portland cement:-

 Oil-well Cement:-  

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Different types of cement

we can not say one type is the best but we can choose the best type of cement according to the purpose we will use cement on it

We cant say one particular cement is the best.
Today we have different types of cement for different purposes.
Most widely used is ordinary portland cement.
This has also different grades depending on the construction structures.
Some are Modified portland cement, High alumina cement, White cement, Masonry cement etc ...

First, it is important to understand that cement is just one ingredient of concrete; these two terms are not synonymous.
Concrete is the mixture of water, some type of aggregate — such as crushed rocks or sand — and cement, which acts as a binder to hold all the materials together once hardened.
Evidence suggests that the ancient Romans were the first to use the concrete mixture in construction, and structures like the Pantheon stand as proof of the success of their invention.
Mortar, in its most general and basic form, is referred to as Portland, or Type One, cement and is created by burning limestone with other materials at2,642°F (1,450°C).
The result is then ground to produce a fine powder, which becomes one of the components of concrete.
Altering the amounts of the other materials in the burnt mixture yields several different types of Portland cement, however, each type having unique properties and strengths.
The type of mortar used in building a structure should be chosen based on the structure’s purpose and environment.
Because structures have various chemical and physical requirements, eight different types are manufactured.
These types are simply referred to as Type One, Type Two, Type Three, Type Four, Type Five, and Type One-A, Type Two-A, and Type Three-A.
Types One through Five are distinctly different, while Types One-A, Two-A, and Three-A are modified versions of their counterparts