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2. Engineered stone - Wikipedia

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   The private Spanish company Cosentino brand Silestone and the public Israeli company Caesarstone are the most recognizable brands for quartz, as well as Totem Quartz, an Iranian company which has a huge market in the middle east and Central Asia. Gulfstone, an Oman-based company, is the only producer of engineered quartz stone in the GCC.

3. Countertop - Wikipedia

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   Countertop. A countertop, also counter top, counter, benchtop, worktop (British English) or kitchen bench (Australian or New Zealand English), bunker (Scottish English) is a raised, firm, flat, and horizontal surface. They are built for work in kitchens or other food preparation areas, bathrooms or lavatories, and workrooms in general.

4. Siltstone - Wikipedia

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   Siltstone is an unusual rock, in which most of the silt grains are made of quartz. [11] The origin of quartz silt has been a topic of much research and debate. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Some quartz silt likely has its origin in fine-grained foliated metamorphic rock, [ 14 ] while much marine silt is likely biogenic, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] but most quartz sediments ...

5. Cambria (company) - Wikipedia

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   A silo, located on US 169 between St. Peter and Le Sueur, is rented by Cambria to store quartz granules and slabs. [13] The silo was repainted with the Cambria logo. Cambria was ordered to remove the sign by MnDOT because it violated state law against advertisements along public highway corridors and county ordinance in historic preservation districts. [13]

6. Caesarstone - Wikipedia

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   Caesarstone. Caesarstone Ltd. (Hebrew: אבן קיסר, Even Qeysar), is a publicly traded company that engages in the production and marketing of quartz surfaces used for kitchen countertops, vanity tops, flooring, wall cladding and general interior design. The company was founded in 1987 and is traded on the NASDAQ in New York (CSTE).

7. Mohs scale - Wikipedia

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   Mohs hardness kit, containing one specimen of each mineral on the ten-point hardness scale. The Mohs scale (/ m oʊ z / MOHZ) of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.

8. Limestone - Wikipedia

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   Limestone was also a very popular building block in the Middle Ages in the areas where it occurred, since it is hard, durable, and commonly occurs in easily accessible surface exposures. Many medieval churches and castles in Europe are made of limestone. Beer stone was a popular kind of limestone for medieval buildings in southern England. [109]

9. Quartzite - Wikipedia

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   Quartzite is a very hard rock composed predominantly of an interlocking mosaic of quartz crystals. The grainy, sandpaper-like surface is glassy in appearance. Minor amounts of former cementing materials, iron oxide, silica, carbonate and clay, often migrate during recrystallization, causing streaks and lenses to form within the quartzite. [1 ...