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Tipps and tricks for the installation and use of granite and marble stone at home.

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Home useTipps and tricks for the installation and use of granite and marble stone at home.
Stone professionalNatural stone for professional builders and designers, from architecture to facade building and the installation of marble and granite flooring.
Quary and ProductionInformation for natural stone companies, quarying of granite and marble, cutting of slabs and tiles, with information on machinery and current trends.
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Is Granite radioactive?

A popular myth about granite is its (possible) radioactivity. Let's take a closer look at this matter and find out about the radioactivity of granite and other natural stones.

Is there only granite and marble?

At shops for natural stone, they often seem to sell only two kinds of natural stones – granite and marble. However, the marble tiles for your living room, or the granite countertop for your kitchen may well be some other kind of natural stone.

Why is granite and marble so expensive?

Granite and marble is expensive, is an often heard assumption. While many years ago this statement was – for most of the materials – true, today it is far less the case.

Definitions of Thermal Properties of Natural Stone

This is a growing list of thermal properties of natural stones and related materials.

Definitions of Mechanical Properties of Natural Stone

This is a growing list of mechanical properties of natural stones and related materials.

Definitions of Chemical Properties of Natural Stone

This is a growing list of chemical properties of natural stones and related materials.

Natural Stone and Adhesives

What kind of adhesive has which characteristics? Which characteristics of the adhesive are relevant for my gluing?

What is Igneous Rock?

Igneous rocks are formed when molten rock (magma) cools and solidifies, with or without crystallization, either below the surface as intrusive (plutonic) rocks or on the surface as extrusive (volcanic) rocks. This magma can be derived from either the Earth

What is Granite?

Granite is a common and widely-occurring group of intrusive felsic igneous rocks that form at great depths and pressures under continents. Granite consists of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars, quartz, hornblende, biotite, muscovite and minor accessory

What is Marble?

What is Limestone?

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate). The primary source of this calcite is usually marine organisms. These organisms secrete shells that settle out of the water column and are deposited on ocean floors as pel

What is Sandstone?

Sandstone is an arenaceous sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. Since sandstones often form highly visible cliffs and other rock formations, certain c

What is Gneiss?

Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of rock formed by high grade regional metamorphic processes from preexisting formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks. Gneissic rocks are coarsely laminated and largely recrystallize

What is Basalt?

Basalt is an extrusive igneous rock, sometimes porphyritic, and is often both fine-grained and dense. Basalt in the tops of subaerial lava flows and cinders will often be highly vesiculated, imparting a lightweight "frothy" texture to the rock. The term ba

What is Tuff?

Tuff (from the Italian "tufo" and pronounced "toof") is a type of rock consisting of consolidated volcanic ash ejected from vents during a volcanic eruption. The products of a volcanic eruption are (a) volcanic gases, (b) magmas, and (c) steam from water h

What is Slate?

Slate is a fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed (foliated) in layers (bedded deposits). Slate can be made into roofing shingles ('roofing slates' in the UK) because it has two lines of brea

What is Quartzite?

Quartzite is a hard, metamorphic rock which was originally sandstone. Through heating and pressure usually related to tectonic compression within orogenic belts, the original quartz sand grains and quartz silica cement were fused into one. Pure quartzite i

What is Travertine?

Travertine is a white concretionary form of calcium carbonate that is usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of mineral springs (especially hot springs) or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, Ital

Definition of sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups (along with igneous and metamorphic rocks) and is formed in three main ways—by the deposition of the weathered remains of other rocks (known as clastic sedimentary rocks); by the deposition of the resul