Follow the 'Green' Brick Road?

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Researchers have developed bricks that look and perform like normal bricks yet are crafted from fly ash a waste produced by coal-fired power plants. Credit: Henry Liu FPC
Researchers have developed bricks that look and perform like normal bricks yet are crafted from fly ash, a waste produced by coal-fired power plants. Credit: Henry Liu, FPC

Researchers have found that bricks made from fly ash--fine ash particles captured as waste by coal-fired power plants--may be even safer than predicted. Instead of leaching minute amounts of mercury as some researchers had predicted, the bricks apparently do the reverse, pulling minute amounts of the toxic metal out of ambient air.


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