rust cement
Building and Engineering (now chiefly historical )
noun
An iron-rich binding cement for joints, which oxidizes in reaction with the air and increases in volume, thus filling and sealing any voids and locking the joined parts together.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Peter Nicholson (1765–1844), architectural writer and mathematician.
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