...layer of magnesite brick 240mm? A wall of furnace is made up of silica brick of 120mm thick covered with a layer of magnesite brick 240mm thick. The temperatures at the inside surface of silica brick wall and outside surface of magnesite brick wall are 7250C and 1100C respectively. If the thermal conductivities of silica and magnesite bricks are 1.7 W/m0C and 5.8 W/m0C, calculate the rate of heat loss per unit area of walls.