Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.
Marble stone terms.
Most marble is made into either crushed stone or dimension stone.
These are used in monuments buildings sculptures paving and other projects.
See engineered stone and cultured marble.
A manmade product attempting to replicate the look of natural stone.
Anchor types for stonework include those made of flat stock straps dovetails and round stock rod cramp rod anchor eyebolt and dowel.
This term is actually a misnomer as it includes an obvious contradiction of terms.
This natural stone industry glossary provides a collection of industry terms that define many products and technical terms.
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone.
A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size.
Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles.
Dimension stone is produced by sawing marble into pieces of specific dimensions.