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  2. Brickwork - Wikipedia

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    Working dimensions is the size of a manufactured brick. It is also called the nominal size of a brick. Brick size may be slightly different due to shrinkage or distortion due to firing, etc. An example of a co-ordinating metric commonly used for bricks in the UK is as follows: [4] [5] [6] Bricks of dimensions 215 mm × 102.5 mm × 65 mm; Mortar ...

  3. Brick - Wikipedia

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    These structures were made up of the first bricks with dimension 400x150x100 mm. [7] Between 5000 and 4500 BC, Mesopotamia had discovered fired brick. [7] The standard brick sizes in Mesopotamia followed a general rule: the width of the dried or burned brick would be twice its thickness, and its length would be double its width. [8]

  4. The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.

  5. Acme Brick - Wikipedia

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    Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry-related construction products and materials.Founder George E. Bennett (October 6, 1852 – July 3, 1907), chartered the company as the Acme Pressed Brick Company on April 17 1891, in Alton, Illinois, [1] although the company's physical location has always been in Texas.

  6. Course (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A brick-built electrical substation in Birmingham, England, with a soldier course running the width of the building, immediately above the door Masonry coursing can be arranged in various orientations, according to which side of the masonry unit is facing the outside and how it is positioned.

  7. Unified Code for Units of Measure - Wikipedia

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    millijoule per gram: mJ/g specific energy: m 2 ⋅s −2: millijoule per cubic metre: mJ/m 3: energy density: m −1 ⋅g⋅s −2: millinewton per metre: mN/m = mJ/m 2: surface tension, stiffness: g⋅s −2: milliwatt per square metre: mW/m 2: heat flux density, irradiance: g⋅s −3: square metre per second: m 2 /s kinematic viscosity ...

  8. Board foot - Wikipedia

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    The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada [1]. It equals the volume of a board that is one foot (30.5 cm) in length, one foot in width, and one inch (2.54 cm) in thickness, or exactly 2.359 737 216 liters .

  9. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    Metric units are units based on the metre, gram or second and decimal (power of ten) multiples or sub-multiples of these. According to Schadow and McDonald, [1] metric units, in general, are those units "defined 'in the spirit' of the metric system, that emerged in late 18th century France and was rapidly adopted by scientists and engineers.