Tiles

Tiles

Any of various thin slabs or bent pieces of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or wall.

Industry: Building materials

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Bullnose

Building materials; Tiles

A trim tile with a convex radius or finished edge on one side. Used for finishing top of wainscot, turning of an outside corner, or floor base.

Mechanical adhesion

Building materials; Tiles

Adhesion between surfaces in which the adhesive holds the parts together by interlocking action.

Acrylic

Building materials; Tiles

A general class of resinous polymers derived from esters, amides or other acrylic acid derivatives.

Accelerator

Building materials; Tiles

A substance which, when added to concrete, mortar, or grout, increases the rate of hydration of the hydraulic cement, shortens the time of setting, or increases the rate of hardening of strength ...

Abrasion resistance

Building materials; Tiles

Ability of a surface to resist being worn away by rubbing and friction.

Absorption

Building materials; Tiles

The relationship of the weight of the water absorbed be a ceramic specimen subjected to prescribed immersion procedure, to the weight of the dry specimen, expressed in percent.