Brick

This page is about bricks used for construction. For other types of brick please see Brick (disambiguation).

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A brick is a ceramic block made of kiln-fired material, usually clay or ground shale. Clay bricks are formed in a mould (the soft mud method), or more frequently in commercial mass production by extruding clay through a die and then wire-cutting them to the proper size (the stiff mud process). Brick made from dampened clay must be formed in molds with a great deal of pressure, usually applied by a hydraulic press. These bricks are known as hydraulic-pressed bricks, and have a dense surface which makes them highly resistant to weathering, and thus suitable for facing work. The shaped clay is then dried and fired to achieve the final, desired strength. In modern brickworks, this is usually done in a continuously fired kiln, in which the bricks move slowly through the kiln on conveyors, rails, or kiln cars to achieve consistent physical characteristics for all bricks. Bricks are also known in the building trades as compressed earth blocks or CEB's.

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Kiln: A kiln is an oven that is used for hardening, burning, or drying anything. Kilns have been used for converting wood into charcoal or to dry green lumber so that the lumber can be used immediately. Modern lumber kilns are also partially depressurized to speed the drying process and reduce fuel usage...

Clay: :For the town in the United States, see Clay, New York....

Shale: Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. It is characterized by thin laminae breaking with an irregular curving fracture, often splintery, and parallel to the often indistinguishable bedding planes. Non-fissile rocks of similar composition but made of ...

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