Crushed stone is used as an aggregate in highways railroad beds building foundations and other types of construction.
Marble stone terms.
This term is actually a misnomer as it includes an obvious contradiction of terms.
See engineered stone and cultured marble.
Most marble is made into either crushed stone or dimension stone.
A manmade product attempting to replicate the look of natural stone.
A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size.
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.
Dimension stone is produced by sawing marble into pieces of specific dimensions.
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.
Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.
Natural stone industry glossary glossary is usually defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge.
These are used in monuments buildings sculptures paving and other projects.