“…The decrease in the fresh mortar density with growing water content, as well as with incorporation of a biopolymeric admixture (mainly HPMC), has been documented by several authors for lime and cementitious mixes [36,39,48,53,54]. The air-entraining function of the HP derivatives of cellulose and guaran has been demonstrated, in accordance with the literature research [27,36,39,53,54], by significantly increasing the air content in fresh mortar; however, HPCH has shown, contrary to previous results of authors [39,42,48], an inefficiency in this mix setup, acting more like the VMA, as observed by Y. Ustinova and T. Nikoforova [41], for chitosan in the cementitious mixture. The significant alteration to mortar rheology by incorporation of DG led to a decrease in the air entrained.…”