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  2. Preferred metric sizes - Wikipedia

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    A standard metric (concrete) block is 190 mm wide, 390 mm long, and 190 mm high, which allows for 10 mm mortar joints in between bricks, giving a standard unit size of 200 mm square by 400 mm long. [3] A standard metric brick is 90 by 57 by 190 mm; with 10 mm of mortar, that produces a standard unit of 100 mm x 200 mm. [3]

  3. Grain size - Wikipedia

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    Grain size (or particle size) is the diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks. The term may also be applied to other granular materials . This is different from the crystallite size, which refers to the size of a single crystal inside a particle or grain.

  4. Granular base equivalency - Wikipedia

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    Thickness (mm) Conversion coefficient Equivalent thickness or GBE (mm) Hot mixed asphalt 30.5 2 61.0 Hot mixed asphalt 58.5 2 117.0 Hot mixed asphalt 38.1 2 76.2 Base 144.8 1 144.8 Subbase 607.1 0.67 406.7 Total - - 805.7

  5. File:Comparison house brick size.svg - Wikipedia

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    Comparison house brick size: Image title: Comparison of typical house brick sizes of assorted countries with isometric projections with nominal dimensions are in mm by CMG Lee. Width: 100%: Height: 100%

  6. 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;

  7. Template:Brick chart/doc - Wikipedia

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  8. Staffordshire blue brick - Wikipedia

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    Brick made by H Doulton & Co. of Rowley Regis, displayed in the Black Country Living Museum The brick is made from the local red clay, Etruria marl , which when fired at a high temperature in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere takes on a deep blue colour and attains a very hard surface with high crushing strength and low water absorption.

  9. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property.