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Just as products for home interiors have been getting greener, there's a growing variety of exterior treatments for creating an ecologically sound home shell. Roofing and siding are both tall ...
Colors range from white to grey, yellow to green, and brown to black, and are often splotchy or veined. Many are intergrown with other minerals, such as calcite and dolomite . The basic structural unit of serpentine is a polar layer 0.72 nm thick.
Marble mis-nomers: Cetechovice marble (cetechovický mramor) from Cetechovice, Kroměříž District: coloured [c] Karlík marble (karlický mramor), from Barrandien, Karlík, Prague-West District: black with gold-yellow-colour veins [d] Podol marble (Podolský mramor), from Vápenný Podol, Chrudim District: white, grey-white, rosy [e]
Swedish green marble, or simply Swedish green, is a marble from quarries in Kolmården, in the north-eastern part of the province of Östergötland in Sweden. It is fine-grained, with a variable green colour and attractive veining, due to serpentines in the stone. It is considered one of the hardest marbles in the world. [1] Swedish green has ...
Connemara marble or "Irish green" is a rare variety of green marble from Connemara, Ireland. It is used as a decoration and building material. It is used as a decoration and building material. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its colour causes it to often be associated with the Irish identity, and for this reason it has been named the national gemstone of Ireland.
An evergreen forest is a forest made up of evergreen trees. They occur across a wide range of climatic zones, and include trees such as conifers and holly in cold climates, eucalyptus, live oak, acacias, magnolia, and banksia in more temperate zones, and rainforest trees in tropical zones.
The great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel is offering a "Green Nobel" prize, unrelated to the Nobel Foundation, to environmental champions of the Amazon rainforest. Marcus Nobel, a Swedish-American ...
Green Thessalicum was three times the price of grey-white marble from Thassos. Verd antique was much used by the monumental builders of the Byzantine Empire and by the Ottomans after them; columns and revetments of verde antico are common in Istanbul's monuments, many inherited from the city's time as Constantinople.