brickmaking
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Authorities are also trying to put a stop to high-polluting practices, such as brickmaking and the burning of rice straw, which is an old farming custom.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2022
Children are doing every step of the brickmaking process.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022
It’s where coal dust was first added to the clay mixture in 1815, which halved burning time in the kilns, and where Richard A. Ver Valen invented the first automatic brickmaking machine in 1852.
From New York Times • May 21, 2021
She read about brickmaking and the Este family’s patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini’s treatises on painting.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2015
In some of the coal-measure shales the amount of organic matter is very considerable, and may render the clay useless for brickmaking.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
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