Intumescent used in a sentence

Intumescent in a sentence as an adjective

You could paint it with intumescent paint but I doubt it would be effective given the low melting temperature, and would probably end up costing as much or more as the brick.

Hence why Steel is usually protected with fire rated drywall like boards, intumescent paint or weird spray on insulation that looks like porridge. Whereas with timber the rate at which it will burn is reliably predicted, so exposed timber structures are designed to be oversized so that the reduced beam sizes will still be effective.

In terms of steel, intumescent spray fire protection, masonry, and gypsum board are common alternatives to concrete for fire protection of steel. As a tangent to the issue of differential expansion, the reason reinforced concrete is practical is because steel and concrete have very similar coefficients of expansion as moisture and temperature vary.