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Most bricks are relatively high density, and also generally good heat conductors, and thus poor insulators. That is why they feel cool to the touch at room temperature.
Some houses are constructed with hollow bricks. Air is a relatively good insulator, but suffers from convection so large air spaces are only moderately good insulators. Adding foam to the air spaces would be better.
Kilns often use a porous insulating firebrick that resembles pumice, and is actually a relatively good insulator.
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How can you use insulate in a sentence?
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What are bricks used for?
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If a blue house is made of blue bricks and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks what is a greenhouse made of?
Glass
