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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Originally Posted by URY914
People that refer to those big heavy blocks that you build stuff with as "cinder blocks". Not much cinder in the block being made these days. Call them concrete blocks in the US.
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I would have no idea what the composition of one of those blocks is. "Cinder Block" is a common term that everyone understands.
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A concrete masonry unit (CMU) is a standard size rectangular block used in building construction.
Those that use cinders (fly ash or bottom ash) are called cinder blocks in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand, breeze blocks (breeze is a synonym of ash)[1] in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and hollow blocks in the Philippines. In Australia they are also known as Besser blocks or besser bricks, because the American-based Besser Company was a major supplier of concrete-block-making machinery. Clinker blocks use clinker as aggregate. In non-technical usage, the terms cinder block and breeze block are often generalized to cover all of these varieties.
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