A fire brick, firebrick, fireclay brick, or refractory brick is a block of ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and fireplaces....
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usually larger than a brick. Lightweight bricks (also called lightweight blocks) are made from expanded clay aggregate. Fired bricks are one of the longest-lasting...
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X11 color names (redirect from Fire Brick)
In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It was traditionally...
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Scarlet (color) (redirect from Fire brick (color))
online version. Displayed below is the web color fire brick, a medium dark shade of scarlet/red. A brick wall Displayed adjacent is the color Boston University...
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Fire clay is a range of refractory clays used in the manufacture of ceramics, especially fire brick. The United States Environmental Protection Agency...
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Shades of red (redirect from Brick red)
variations ranging from bright scarlet to brick red. This is the web color dark red. This is the web color fire brick. The name Indian red derives from the...
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Refractory (redirect from Refractory brick)
environments. They include substances such as silica, alumina, and fire clay brick refractories. Notable reagents that can attack both alumina and silica...
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90.2726°W / 38.6238; -90.2726 The Evens & Howard Fire Brick Company was a manufacturer of fire bricks, sewage pipe and gas retorts in what is now the Cheltenham...
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design, the hearth is the part of the fireplace where the fire burns, usually consisting of fire brick masonry at floor level or higher, underneath the fireplace...
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excessive heat during the firing process, sintering the surface of the brick and forming a shiny, dark-colored coating. Clinker bricks have a blackened appearance...
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characteristically longer and flatter than standard modern bricks. The Romans only developed fired clay bricks under the Empire, but had previously used mudbrick...
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Brickwork (redirect from Brick residence)
as the Bronze Age. The fired-brick faces of the ziggurat of ancient Dur-Kurigalzu in Iraq date from around 1400 BC, and the brick buildings of ancient Mohenjo-daro...
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stone blocks. Romans extensively used fired brick of a shape and type now called Roman bricks. Building with brick gained much popularity in the mid-18th...
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Mud (section Fired brick)
sand may be used for ceramics, of which one form is the common fired brick. Fired brick are more durable but consume much more energy to produce. Stabilized...
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developed by the Dutch. The brick, made from clay dug from river banks or dredged from river beds of the river IJssel and fired over a long period of time...
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software installed. A soft bricked rooted Kindle Fire can be un-bricked by using unrooting tools. A personal computer may be un-bricked by using various means...
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engineering bricks are defined in § 6.4.51 of British Standard BS ISO 6707-1;2014 (buildings & civil engineering works - vocabulary - general terms) as "fire-clay...
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can contribute to a fire. Brick has excellent fire resistance; planks or weatherboards made from fibre cement or steel have high fire resistance; aluminium...
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Ellesmere Port was taken over. John Summers & Sons also bought the Castle Fire Brick company in Buckley and the next year took over the Shelton Iron, Steel...
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Brickworks (redirect from Brick-making)
for firing, or 'burning' the bricks. Drying yard or shed, for drying bricks before firing. A building or buildings for manufacturing the bricks. A quarry...
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Firebox (steam engine) (section Brick arch)
firebox door. Dampers control air flow to the oil fire. There is a large brick arch (made from fire brick) attached to the front wall (boiler throat plate)...
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during the same summer as the Great Spokane Fire and the Great Ellensburg Fire. Seattle quickly rebuilt using brick buildings that sat 20 feet (6.1 m) above...
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source for the nation's fire brick production, so much so that it adopted the moniker "Fire Brick Capital of the World". Bricks produced in Mexico were...
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Tile (section Decorative tile work and colored brick)
technology of making kiln-fired bricks to use as an alternative. To strengthen walls made from sun-dried bricks, fired bricks began to be used as an outer...
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as sawdust bricks. Generally the appliance consists of a solid metal (usually cast iron or steel) closed firebox, often lined by fire brick, and one or...
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Belden, originally chartered the company in Canton, Ohio as the 'Diebold Fire Brick Company' in 1885 on the Belden farm. In the 1870s, Henry S. Belden, had...
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Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and...
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of making coke from coal is a very lengthy process.[citation needed] A fire brick chamber shaped like a dome is used, commonly known as a beehive oven....
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formulations. This was then painted onto the bisque-fired bricks and fired to a higher temperature in a glaze firing. The creation of the gate out of wood and clay...
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