Brick
also called clay brick, red brick, standard brick, common brick
About
A standard clay building block measuring about 8 inches long and weighing roughly 5 pounds.
Standard building bricks are sized so a mason can easily pick them up and position them with one hand. Dimensions vary around the world, but most common types stay close to this handheld scale, while concrete cinder blocks can weigh over 30 pounds (14 kg). Dense clay packing gives even a small stack of these blocks surprising weight.
From Wikipedia
A brick is a type of building material used to build walls, pavements, and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a unit primarily composed of clay, but it is now also used informally to denote building units made of other materials or other chemically cured construction blocks.
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Questions people ask
- How big is a brick?
- A standard brick measures about 7.9 inches (0.2 m) long, 2.25 inches (0.057 m) tall, and weighs 5.1 pounds (2.3 kg). It is roughly the length of a hardcover book and weighs about as much as a two-liter bottle of soda.
- How much space does a standard brick take up?
- About 4.23 cups (1 L), the volume of its body.
Weight
5.07 lb (2.3 kg)
- Space it takes up
- 4.23 cups (1 L)
- Length
- 7.87 in (20 cm)
- Height
- 2.24 in (5.7 cm)
Quick answer
A standard brick measures about 7.9 inches (0.2 m) long, 2.25 inches (0.057 m) tall, and weighs 5.1 pounds (2.3 kg). It is roughly the length of a hardcover book and weighs about as much as a two-liter bottle of soda.
Typical figures, the same ones every comparison on the site uses; real ones vary.
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