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Excerpt from A Comparison of the Chemical and Physical Properties of Vitrified Bricks: A Thesis
The aim of this thesis is to attempt to establish some relation between the chemical and physical properties of vitrified brick; to try to show what effects different amounts of any substance, as shown by the chemical analysis, have upon the quality of the brick as determined by the standard physical tests. While we were unable to compare, in this manner, as many different kinds of brick as we wished, still we feel that the conclusions we have drawn at the end of this paper are general enough to in - About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
