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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.
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buttonback tile
Building materials; Tiles
Tile that have projections on the bondable side. Many of these projections are round and therefore the term buttonback.
admixture
Building materials; Tiles
A material other than water, aggregates, and hydraulic cement, used as an ingredient of concrete or mortar, and added to the concrete immediately before or during its mixing.
aggregate
Building materials; Tiles
Granular material, such as sand, gravel, crushed stone, and iron blast-furnace slag, used with a cementing medium to form a hydraulic-cement, concrete or mortar.
additive
Building materials; Tiles
A term frequently (but improperly) used as a synonym for addition or admixture.
adhesion
Building materials; Tiles
Adhesion between surfaces which are held together by valence forces of the same type as those which give rise to cohesion.
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.
