porous brick

Introducing a porous brick with compressed air, and a mechanical stirring mechanism, Callow applied for a patent in 1914.

Similarly, the mortar used to cover and waterproof the top layer of bricks may have also crumbled, letting water seep though the porous bricks into the house.

W. Hugo Liepman, the company's patent attorney in the United States, said Fujimi had used the process to develop a highly porous brick for outdoor construction.

They isolate combustible building materials from high heat, and they prevent creosote and other by-products of combustion from seeping through porous brick and mortar.

With favorable materials such as metals, which vibrated with greater fidelity and resonance than porous brick, computer enhancement could recreate conversations which were taking place within the buildings.

In other, less harsh situations, such as in an electric or natural gas fired kiln, more porous bricks, commonly known as "kiln bricks" are a better choice.

While the core of the original Buddha was made of clay mixed with round stones, he said, the replacement would be built of porous bricks composed of clay and straw.

In this row-house neighborhood you see two of the other things that set the city apart: white marble steps called stoops and facades of Formstone, a cement-based falseface for porous brick.

Formosan subterranean termites with an insatiable taste for irreplaceable historic structures have been devastating the French Quarter, drawn to its moist, porous bricks and centuries-old wood, ravaging ancient live oak trees.

The effect can easily be seen by simply placing a piece of porous brick, stone, or mortar in a shallow tray of water and observing how the water is absorbed into the porous material and is transported above the water line.

Attempts have been made to remedy this evil of porous bricks by the substitution of the hard blue bricks of Staffordshire; and then it may often be noticed that the wet has only struck, sailor-like, across the mortar-joints and chequered the inside walls like a tartan plaid."