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mud brick

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mud brick
A term occasionally used for adobe that has been shaped in a brick form and then sun-dried.


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In recent days Gaza residents have started building mud brick houses on their own in some of the hardest-hit areas of the territory in Gaza City and the southern towns of Khan Yunis and Rafah.
9781842170595 Vernacular mud brick architecture in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt; and the design of the Dakhleh Oasis Training and Archaeological Conservation Centre.
The raw ingredients-clay, gravel, sand, silt, soil, loam-are everywhere, and compared with other materials, a mud brick has a minute embodied energy [the energy used to manufacture and transport a unit of material].
 
 
 
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