An article published by the Commission of the European Communities in 1982, outlines the reasons why the generic term geopolymer was chosen for this new chemistry. See: J. Davidovits, The Need to Create a New Technical Language For the Transfer of Basic Scientific Information, in Transfer and Exploitation of Scientific and Technical Information, Proceedings of the symposium, Luxemburg, 10–12 June 1981, pp. 316-320. It is available as a pdf-file and may be downloaded from the European Parliament Bookshop. Go to < https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/02a1db8b-3873-46d7-9e72-a6e02660e154 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） > and click on 'download'.
An article published by the Commission of the European Communities in 1982, outlines the reasons why the generic term geopolymer was chosen for this new chemistry. See: J. Davidovits, The Need to Create a New Technical Language For the Transfer of Basic Scientific Information, in Transfer and Exploitation of Scientific and Technical Information, Proceedings of the symposium, Luxemburg, 10–12 June 1981, pp. 316-320. It is available as a pdf-file and may be downloaded from the European Parliament Bookshop. Go to < https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/02a1db8b-3873-46d7-9e72-a6e02660e154 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） > and click on 'download'.
