BRICKS

BRICKS

The word “brick” comes to us from the Turkic languages. It happened approximately in the XIV century. Before the advent of the brick there was another variety of this material — bricks. Were they made with a thin and flat clay plate with a thickness of about 2.5 centimeters. For the manufacture of bricks used wooden forms in which they are first dried for about 10-14 days, and then subjected to firing in a kiln. In the ancient Chronicles there are even mention of this building material.

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