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Glass mosaics of sea turtles on a subway platform. Since the 1990s, a variety of modern glass tile technologies, including methods to take used glass and recreate it as ' green ' tiles, has resulted in a resurgence of interest in glass tile as a floor and wall cladding. It is now most commonly used in pools, kitchens, spas, and bathrooms.
Ceramic material is an inorganic, metallic oxide, nitride, or carbide material. Some elements, such as carbon or silicon, may be considered ceramics. Ceramic materials are brittle, hard, strong in compression, and weak in shearing and tension. They withstand the chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic ...
Glass brick. 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 form. Glass bricks provide visual obscuration while admitting light. The modern glass block was developed from pre-existing prism lighting principles in the early 1900s to provide ...
A stove or range is a device that generates heat inside or on top of the device, for local heating or cooking. Stoves can be powered with many fuels, such as electricity, natural gas, gasoline, wood, and coal . Due to concerns about air pollution, efforts have been made to improve stove design. [ 1] Pellet stoves are a type of clean-burning stove.
Ancient Roman pottery. Unusually ambitious Samian ware flask from Southern Gaul around 100 AD. Heracles is killing Laomedon. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of ...
Roman bricks in the Jewry Wall, Leicester. The 20th-century bracing arch in the background utilises modern bricks. Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes. Both types are characteristically longer and flatter ...
Corbel: A brick, block, or stone that oversails the main wall. Cramp: Or frame cramp is a tie used to secure a window or door frame. Creasing tile: A flat clay tile laid as a brick to form decorative features or waterproofing to the top of a garden wall. Dog leg: A brick that is specially made to bond around internal acute angles. Typically 60 ...
A piece of vitrified brick. Clinker bricks are partially- vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings . Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive heat during the firing process, sintering the surface of the brick and forming a shiny, dark-colored coating. [ 1] [ 2][ 3] Clinker bricks have a blackened ...