A manmade product attempting to replicate the look of natural stone.
Marble stone terms.
Most marble is made into either crushed stone or dimension stone.
See engineered stone and cultured marble.
This term is actually a misnomer as it includes an obvious contradiction of terms.
This natural stone industry glossary provides a collection of industry terms that define many products and technical terms.
A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size.
Crushed stone is used as an aggregate in highways railroad beds building foundations and other types of construction.
These are used in monuments buildings sculptures paving and other projects.
Stone is naturally occurring earth material.
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.
Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.
Anchor types for stonework include those made of flat stock straps dovetails and round stock rod cramp rod anchor eyebolt and dowel.