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2. Slate - Wikipedia

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   A slate roof in Cardiff, Wales A slate-faced church and homes in Wurzbach, Germany A fine slate tile work, Saint Leonhard's Church in Frankfurt am Main, Germany Slates with holes at a farm in Tremedda, Cornwall, England. Slate can be made into roofing slate, a type of roof tile which are installed by a slater. Slate has two lines of ...

3. Terrazzo - Wikipedia

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   One of the most well known examples of terrazzo flooring is the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of chips of marble , quartz , granite , glass , or other suitable material, poured with a cementitious binder (for chemical binding ...

4. Flexible stone veneer - Wikipedia

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   Flexible stone veneers were first created by accident in 1995 when the slate furniture designer Gernot Ehrlich of Germany found that when resins used to bond slate tiles were removed from a broken tabletop, a remaining stone skin, or veneer, of the original stone was left attached to the resin.

5. Slate industry - Wikipedia

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   The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling in a slate mine. Common uses for slate include as a roofing material, a flooring material, gravestones and memorial tablets, and electrical insulation.

6. Tile - Wikipedia

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   Some common uses include flooring of garage, workshops, patios, swimming pool decks, sport courts, gyms, and dance floors. Plastic floor tiles including interlocking floor tiles that can be installed without adhesive or glue are a recent innovation and are suitable for areas subject to heavy traffic, wet areas and floors that are subject to ...

7. List of decorative stones - Wikipedia

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   Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade. Natural stone is also used in custom stone engraving. The engraved stone can be either decorative or functional. Natural memorial stones are used as natural burial markers.