Glass blocks are sometimes substituted for ordinary bricks.

有时用玻璃砖代替普通的砖。

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The city itself escaped largely unscarred, the glass blocks housing the capital’s banks continuing to gleam unshattered.

这座城市大部分保存完整，首都银行所在的玻璃街幸免于难，依旧闪闪发光。

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Designer glass blocks in clear and opalescent colors add a rich touch and they're readily available in stackable, no-mortar designs.

在明确和乳白色的颜色设计玻璃砖添加丰富的触摸和他们随时可以在堆叠，无砂浆的设计。

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Think of the salt layer as one of those glass blocks used to build bathroom walls.

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Less successful but still profitable is Pittsburgh Corning, a joint venture with PPG Industries, that makes foam glass insulation and architectural glass blocks.

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David Sanderson, a physicist at the Scottish universities' research and reactor centre, says that while this would need heavy investment (and a lot of workers), plutonium can be mixed with waste and vitrified into storable glass blocks, so making it unusable in bombs if any terrorists managed to steal some.

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