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101 relations: Ablation, Adhesive, Air entrainment, Asbestos, Bay mud, Benelux, Blocking (construction), Boral, Boric acid, BPB plc, Building code, Cable tray, Calcium sulfate, Capillary action, Cartel, Cement board, Certification listing, Certification mark, Chelation, Chinese drywall, Clay panel, Compartmentalization (engineering), Construction, Countersink, Deflection (engineering), Deutsches Institut für Normung, Dispersant, Drywall mechanic, Efficient energy use, Endothermic process, Enviroboard, Environmentally friendly, Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, European Commission, Fastener, Fire, Fire protection, Fire test, Fire-resistance rating, Firestop, Firewall (construction), Flue-gas desulfurization, Foaming agent, Germany, Glass fiber, Gypsum, Heat, Homasote, Hydrate, Hydrogen sulfide, ..., Joint compound, Joist, Keyhole saw, Knockdown texture, Lafarge (company), Lath, Lath and plaster, Magnesium oxide wallboard, Mildew, Nail (fastener), National Building Code of Canada, National Research Council (Canada), North America, Paper, Passive fire protection, Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), Perlite, Plaster, Plasticizer, Plumbing, Product certification, Putty, Putty knife, QuietRock, R-value (insulation), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Research and development, Rochester, Kent, Saint-Gobain, Self-tapping screw, Sheet metal, Silanes, Sound transmission class, Starch, Steel frame, Structural steel, Sublimation (phase transition), T-square, Taping knife, The New York Times, Truss uplift, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, UL (safety organization), United States Environmental Protection Agency, USG Corporation, Utility knife, Wall, Wall stud, Water of crystallization, Wax, Xella. Expand index (51 more) »
Ablation
Ablation is removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes.
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Adhesive
An adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any substance applied to one surface, or both surfaces, of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.
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Air entrainment
Air entrainment is the intentional creation of tiny air bubbles in concrete.
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Asbestos
Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.
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Bay mud
Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles.
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Benelux
The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux) is a politico-economic union of three neighbouring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
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Blocking (construction)
Blocking is a general, American English term for the use of short pieces (blocks) of dimensional lumber in wood framed construction.
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Boral
Boral Limited is a multinational company manufacturing and supplying building and construction materials.
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Boric acid
Boric acid, also called hydrogen borate, boracic acid, orthoboric acid and acidum boricum, is a weak, monobasic Lewis acid of boron, which is often used as an antiseptic, insecticide, flame retardant, neutron absorber, or precursor to other chemical compounds.
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BPB plc
BPB plc (British Plaster Board) was a British building materials business.
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Building code
A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures.
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Cable tray
In the electrical wiring of buildings, a cable tray system is used to support insulated electrical cables used for power distribution, control, and communication.
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Calcium sulfate
Calcium sulfate (or calcium sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the formula CaSO4 and related hydrates.
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Capillary action
Capillary action (sometimes capillarity, capillary motion, capillary effect, or wicking) is the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of, or even in opposition to, external forces like gravity.
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Cartel
A cartel is a group of apparently independent producers whose goal is to increase their collective profits by means of price fixing, limiting supply, or other restrictive practices.
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Cement board
A cement board is a combination of cement and reinforcing fibers formed into 3 foot by 5 foot sheets, 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick that are typically used as a tile backing board.
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Certification listing
A certification listing is a document used to guide installations of certified products, against which a field installation is compared to make sure that it complies with a regulation (e.g., a building code).
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Certification mark
A certification mark (or conformity mark) on a commercial product indicates the existence of an accepted product standard or regulation and a claim that the manufacturer has verified compliance with those standards or regulations.
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Chelation
Chelation is a type of bonding of ions and molecules to metal ions.
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Chinese drywall
"Chinese drywall" refers to an environmental health issue involving defective drywall manufactured in China, imported to the United States and used in residential construction between 2001 and 2009 — affecting "an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states." In samples of contaminated drywall, laboratory tests will detect off-gassing of volatile chemicals and sulfurous gases — including carbon disulfide, carbonyl sulfide, and hydrogen sulfide.
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Clay panel
Clay panel (also known as clay board, clay wallboard, clay building board, clay building panel) is a panel made of clay with some additives.
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Compartmentalization (engineering)
When referring to engineering, compartmentalization is the general technique of separating two or more parts of a system to prevent malfunctions from spreading between or among them.
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Construction
Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure.
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Countersink
A Countersink (symbol: '''⌵''') is a conical hole cut into a manufactured object, or the cutter used to cut such a hole.
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Deflection (engineering)
In engineering, deflection is the degree to which a structural element is displaced under a load.
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Deutsches Institut für Normung
Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardization) is the German national organization for standardization and is the German ISO member body.
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Dispersant
A dispersant or a dispersing agent or a plasticizer or a superplasticizer is either a non-surface active polymer or a surface-active substance added to a suspension, usually a colloid, to improve the separation of particles and to prevent settling or clumping.
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Drywall mechanic
A Drywall mechanic is a skilled trade similar to wood carpenters, except they build everything out of heavy gauge and light gauge steel studs (not wood studs) all year round, regardless of weather conditions.
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Efficient energy use
Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services.
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Endothermic process
The term endothermic process describes the process or reaction in which the system absorbs energy from its surroundings, usually in the form of heat.
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Enviroboard
Enviroboard is a paper-like or cardboard-like construction and packaging material, generally manufactured using compressed, ecologically safe, agricultural material.
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Environmentally friendly
Environmentally friendly or environment-friendly, (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green) are sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that claim reduced, minimal, or no harm upon ecosystems or the environment.
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Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), also known by several other names, is a chemical originating in multiseasonal plants with dormancy stages as a lipidopreservative which helps to develop the stem, currently used for both industrial and medical purposes.
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.
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Fastener
A fastener (US English) or fastening (UK English) is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together.
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Fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
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Fire protection
Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires.
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Fire test
A fire test is a means of determining whether fire protection products meet minimum performance criteria as set out in a building code or other applicable legislation.
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Fire-resistance rating
A fire-resistance rating typically means the duration for which a passive fire protection system can withstand a standard fire resistance test.
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Firestop
A firestop is a passive fire protection system made up of various components and used to seal openings and joints in a fire-resistance-rated wall or floor assembly.
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Firewall (construction)
A firewall is a fire-resistant barrier used to prevent the spread of fire for a prescribed period of time.
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Flue-gas desulfurization
Flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) is a set of technologies used to remove sulfur dioxide from exhaust flue gases of fossil-fuel power plants, and from the emissions of other sulfur oxide emitting processes (e.g trash incineration).
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Foaming agent
A foaming agent is a material that facilitates formation of foam such as a surfactant or a blowing agent.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Glass fiber
Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.
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Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.
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Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one system to another as a result of thermal interactions.
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Homasote
Homasote is a brand name associated with the product generically known as cellulose based fiber wall board, which is similar in composition to papier-mâché, made from recycled paper that is compressed under high temperature and pressure and held together with an adhesive.
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Hydrate
In chemistry, a hydrate is a substance that contains water or its constituent elements.
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Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide is the chemical compound with the chemical formula H2S.
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Joint compound
Joint compound (also known as drywall compound or Mastic) is a white powder of primarily gypsum dust mixed with water to form a mud the consistency of cake frosting, which is used with paper or fiber joint tape to seal joints between sheets of drywall to create a seamless base for paint on interior walls.
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Joist
A joist is a horizontal structural member used in framing to span an open space, often between beams that subsequently transfer loads to vertical members.
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Keyhole saw
A keyhole saw (also called a pad saw, alligator saw, jab saw or drywall saw) is a long, narrow saw used for cutting small, often awkward features in various building materials.
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Knockdown texture
Knockdown Texture is a drywall finishing style.
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Lafarge (company)
Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in three major products: cement, construction aggregates, and concrete.
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Lath
A lath or slat is a thin, narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles, on lath and plaster walls and ceilings to hold plaster, and in lattice and trellis work.
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Lath and plaster
Lath and plaster is a building process used to finish mainly interior walls and ceilings in Canada and the United States until the late 1950s.
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Magnesium oxide wallboard
Magnesium oxide, more commonly called magnesia, is a versatile mineral that when used as part of a cement mixture and cast into thin cement panels under proper curing procedures and practices can be used in residential and commercial building construction.
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Mildew
Mildew is a form of fungus.
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Nail (fastener)
In woodworking and construction, a nail is a pin-shaped object of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration.
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National Building Code of Canada
The National Building Code of Canada is the model building code of Canada.
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National Research Council (Canada)
The National Research Council (NRC, Conseil national de recherches Canada) is the primary national research and technology organization (RTO) of the Government of Canada, in science and technology research and development.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Paper
Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.
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Passive fire protection
Passive fire protection (PFP) is an integral component of the components of structural fire protection and fire safety in a building.
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Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural)
Penetrants, or penetrating items, are the mechanical, electrical or structural items that pass through an opening in a wall or floor, such as pipes, electrical conduits, ducting, electrical cables and cable trays, or structural steel beams and columns.
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Perlite
Perlite is an amorphous volcanic glass that has a relatively high water content, typically formed by the hydration of obsidian.
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Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective and/or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.
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Plasticizer
Plasticizers (UK: plasticisers) or dispersants are additives that increase the plasticity or decrease the viscosity of a material.
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Plumbing
Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications.
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Product certification
Product certification or product qualification is the process of certifying that a certain product has passed performance tests and quality assurance tests, and meets qualification criteria stipulated in contracts, regulations, or specifications (typically called "certification schemes" in the product certification industry).
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Putty
Putty is a material with high plasticity, similar in texture to clay or dough, typically used in domestic construction and repair as a sealant or filler.
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Putty knife
A putty knife is a specialized tool used when glazing single glazed windows, to work putty around the edges of each pane of glass.
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QuietRock
QuietRock is a brand of internally damped gypsum drywall panels manufactured in Newark, CA by PABCO Gypsum.
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R-value (insulation)
In building and construction, the R-value is a measure of how well an object, per unit of its exposed area, resists conductive flow of heat: the greater the R-value, the greater the resistance, and so the better the thermal insulating properties of the object.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a private research university and space-grant institution located in Troy, New York, with two additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut.
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Research and development
Research and development (R&D, R+D, or R'n'D), also known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), refers to innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, or improving existing services or products.
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Rochester, Kent
Rochester is a town and was a historic city in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, England.
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Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain S.A. is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie.
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Self-tapping screw
A self-tapping screw is a screw that can tap its own hole as it is driven into the material.
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Sheet metal
Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces.
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Silanes
Silanes are saturated chemical compounds consisting of one or multiple silicon atoms linked to each other or one or multiple atoms of other chemical elements as the tetrahedral centers of multiple single bonds.
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Sound transmission class
Sound Transmission Class (or STC) is an integer rating of how well a building partition attenuates airborne sound.
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Starch
Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.
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Steel frame
Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal ibeam-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.
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Structural steel
Structural steel is a category of steel used for making construction materials in a variety of shapes.
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Sublimation (phase transition)
Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase, without passing through the intermediate liquid phase.
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T-square
A T-square is a technical drawing instrument used by draftsmen primarily as a guide for drawing horizontal lines on a drafting table.
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Taping knife
A taping knife or joint knife is a drywall tool with a wide blade for spreading joint compound, also known as "mud".
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Truss uplift
Truss uplift or truss lift is when the wood in wooden trusses shrinks, or cures, and the bottom most piece bows upwards, most notably near the middle.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) is an independent agency of the United States government.
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UL (safety organization)
UL is a global safety consulting and certification company headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.
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USG Corporation
USG Corporation, also known as United States Gypsum Corporation, is an American company which manufactures construction materials, most notably drywall and joint compound.
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Utility knife
A utility knife is a knife used for general or utility purposes.
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Wall
A wall is a structure that defines an area, carries a load, or provides shelter or security.
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Wall stud
A wall stud is a vertical framing member in a building's wall of smaller cross section than a post.
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Water of crystallization
In chemistry, water of crystallization or water of hydration or crystallization water is water molecules that are present inside crystals.
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Wax
Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures.
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Xella
The Xella Group with headquarters in Duisburg, Germany, develops, manufactures and markets building and insulation materials.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drywall
