The term masonry brick describes all bricks consisting of clay, loam or clayey masses intended for masonry. Some of them are formed with the addition of sand, quartz chunks, dried clay flour or fired clay. They are then either air-dried or fired.

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"Wall" is a loanword from Latin. "Murus" was originally the name for a wall made of stone in Roman style. "Wall" comes from the Gothic. "Wandus" referred to the Germanic wickerwork (rod / coil).

Bricks or bricks are man-made stones. They are made of clay, clay, etc. Air-dried bricks are called "air bricks". The actual bricks, also called brick, are created when the shaped bricks are fired in a kiln.

Clay is mixed and crushed after mining. With the help of steam and water, it is mixed into a plastic, kneadable mass. Compression presses produce a strand with the desired dimensions in width and height. Then the strand is cut into stones of the desired length. The fresh stones are first dried and then fired at temperatures of up to 1000°C. This causes the so-called "sintering" of the grain just below the melting temperature of the components. This causes the substance to solidify.

Notes on planning

• The colouring of the masonry bricks can be influenced by the composition of the starting material. A higher lime content causes a yellow, a higher iron oxide content a red colouring of the bricks.
• The higher the firing temperature, the more the stones sinter. This increases moisture and frost resistance as well as compressive strength, but reduces the heat storage capacity.
• Exposed bricks can be smoothed, granulated or peeled (roughened).
• Bricks are available with 3 or 4 visible sides. The bricks are frost-resistant on the visible sides and therefore weatherproof.
• "Normal", untreated bricks are only suitable to a limited extent for the visible area outside.

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