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2. Stone sealer - Wikipedia

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   Stone sealing is the application of a surface treatment to products constructed of natural stone to retard staining and corrosion. [1] All bulk natural stone is riddled with interconnected capillary channels that permit penetration by liquids and gases.

3. Sealant - Wikipedia

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   Sealant. Self-leveling silicone firestop system used around pipe through-penetration in a two-hour fire-resistance rated concrete floor assembly. Sealant is a substance used to block the passage of fluids through openings in materials, [1] a type of mechanical seal. In building construction sealant is sometimes synonymous with caulk (especially ...

4. Cambria (company) - Wikipedia

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   The process of creating the countertops is different than granite, in that it is an engineered product, consisting of a minimum of 93% quartz and 7% epoxy binder and dyes. [6] An engineered product that requires no sealer has the advantage in that it requires no harsh chemicals to seal, nor does it emit harmful chemicals into the air, making it ...

5. Stone flaming - Wikipedia

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   Stone flaming or thermaling is the application of high temperature to the surface of stone to make it look like natural weathering. [1][2] The sudden application of a torch to the surface of stone causes the surface layer to expand and flake off, exposing rough stone. Flaming works well on granite, because granite is made up of minerals with ...

6. Llanite - Wikipedia

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   Llanite. Llanite is a porphyritic rhyolite with distinctive phenocrysts of blue quartz (a rare quartz color) and perthitic feldspar (light grayish-orangeish). The brown, fine-grained groundmass consists of very small quartz, feldspar, and biotite mica crystals. Llanite comes from a hypabyssal porphyritic rhyolite dike that intrudes Precambrian ...

7. Decomposed granite - Wikipedia

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   Decomposed granite is a kind of granite rock that is weathered to the point that the parent material readily fractures into smaller pieces of weaker rock. Further weathering yields material that easily crumbles into mixtures of gravel -sized particles known as grus that further may break down to produce a mixture of clay and silica sand or silt ...