Essay on the resistance of a house brick
The first major problem faced in this experiment is heating the brick up to 800 degrees Celsius (considering that the ambient temperature is around 20 degrees Celsius. Bricks have a highly porous surface and this can be easily observed from the fact that all bricks soak more and more humidity as time passes. The brick hence has to be initially heated to a slow temperature of 50 degrees in order to remove all excess humidity from its porous; a standard laboratory torch can be used for this purpose. Heating directly all the way up to 800 degrees can result in structural damage to the brick due to the expansion of the humidity inside the porous. …
