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hypocaust

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hypocaust (hī`pəkôst): see heating heating, means of making a building comfortably warm relative to a colder outside temperature. Old, primitive methods of heating a building or a room within it include the open fire, the fireplace, and the stove .
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The Korean heated floor extends this stove to operate on a whole room, like a Roman hypocaust.
Being so thick, the walls can incorporate heating pipes, and hypocausts feature in at least two of his projects.
Other thermal control elements are the galleries' hypocaust floors which are like raised office plates over a concrete slab.
 
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