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    pests and insects. Metal roofs are sometimes made of corrugated galvanized steel: a wrought iron–steel sheet was coated with zinc and then roll-formed into...
    21 KB (2,523 words) - 17:54, 30 July 2024
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    Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance...
    143 KB (16,224 words) - 08:44, 27 August 2024
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    and wind. A roof is part of the building envelope. The characteristics of a roof are dependent upon the purpose of the building that it covers, the available...
    25 KB (3,352 words) - 13:53, 8 August 2024
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    Flashing (weatherproofing) (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
    in complicated roof shapes. Thermal movement in flashings is prevented or is permitted only at predetermined locations. "Soft zinc" is a newer, proprietary...
    13 KB (1,581 words) - 10:45, 20 August 2024
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    Rain gutter (redirect from Roof gutters)
    water ingress and to prevent a build-up of excessive weight. Water from a pitched roof flows down into a valley gutter, a parapet gutter or an eaves gutter...
    20 KB (2,605 words) - 08:44, 2 September 2024
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    Orichalcum (category Articles with short description)
    found to have similar composition as measured with ICP-OES and ICP-MS: around 65–80% copper, 15–25% zinc, 4–7% lead, 0.5–1% nickel, and trace amounts of...
    12 KB (1,133 words) - 13:29, 30 August 2024
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    both pitched roofs and flat roofs. Flat or low-slope roofs can be covered with steel, aluminum, zinc, or copper just like pitched roofs. However, metal...
    53 KB (7,507 words) - 15:55, 9 September 2024
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    Copper in architecture (category Articles with short description)
    in seawater, however, brass alloys with 20% or more zinc may suffer corrosive attack. Copper roofs are extremely durable in most environments. They have...
    91 KB (10,970 words) - 07:11, 23 December 2023
  • for roofs of low pitch such as 0.5/12 to 3/12 pitch. Flat-seam metal with or without soldered seams. Steel coated with a coloured alloy of zinc and aluminium...
    16 KB (2,066 words) - 22:58, 4 June 2024
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    Covering (construction) (category Roofs)
    location on the roof: flat, corrugated, curved, and saddleback. The material is often terracotta, but it can also be concrete, glass, or metal (zinc, steel)....
    26 KB (3,671 words) - 08:43, 1 May 2024
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    reflective surface is a type of roof called the "cool roof". While cool roofs are mostly associated with white roofs, they come in a variety of colors and...
    65 KB (7,378 words) - 17:57, 22 August 2024
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    both a galvanized roof and galvanized gutters. Some galvanized sheet roofing was pressed with designs, a popular technique in the Victorian era. Zinc was...
    16 KB (2,372 words) - 01:38, 6 June 2024
  • Deep level underground (category Articles with short description)
    "padded cells". Cut-and-cover is a simple method of construction for shallow tunnels where a trench is excavated and roofed over with an overhead support...
    9 KB (1,204 words) - 22:11, 20 August 2024
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    Asphalt shingle (category Roofs)
    asphalt shingle is a type of wall or roof shingle that uses asphalt for waterproofing. It is one of the most widely used roofing covers in North America...
    28 KB (3,602 words) - 22:55, 2 September 2024
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    the taste of the water. Zinc can also be a source of contamination in some paints, as well as galvanized iron or zincalume roofs, particularly when new...
    24 KB (2,863 words) - 17:30, 30 August 2024
  • Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from May 2019)
    buried in "tightly sealed zinc coffins". Ananenko and Bespalov received their awards in person, while Baranov, who died in 2005 of a heart attack, was awarded...
    72 KB (5,656 words) - 14:15, 9 September 2024
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    Anodizing (category Articles with short description)
    finish with higher wear resistance. Zinc is rarely anodized, but a process was developed by the International Lead Zinc Research Organization and covered by...
    34 KB (4,392 words) - 03:48, 28 April 2024
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    Optical coating (category Articles with short description)
    composed from two materials, one with a high index, such as zinc sulfide (n=2.32) or titanium dioxide (n=2.4), and one with a low index, such as magnesium...
    22 KB (2,827 words) - 15:18, 19 August 2024
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    Maastricht City Hall (category Articles with short description)
    Carillon. The roof lantern is cover with a point tipped dome clad in zinc and finished with a sphere and a Weather vane. A almost exact copy of the tower...
    5 KB (732 words) - 17:32, 27 May 2024
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    Corrugated galvanised iron (category Articles with short description)
    corrugated sheet metal (in North America), zinc (in Cyprus and Nigeria) or custom orb / corro sheet (Australia), is a building material composed of sheets of...
    9 KB (951 words) - 00:24, 17 August 2024
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