What Is Natural Stone Tile?

2023-05-17

Natural stone refers to the general term for materials that are mined from natural rocks and processed into blocks or plates. The two most basic types of stone used in the architectural decoration industry are natural stone and artificial stone. Natural stone such as marble, granite, limestone, etc. There are two main types of natural stone used in architectural decoration: granite and marble. Natural stone is one of the oldest civil engineering materials. Natural stone has high compressive strength, good wear resistance and durability, beautiful and decorative surface after processing, wide distribution of resources, rich reserves, easy to obtain materials locally, and low production cost. In civil engineering, it is the main material for building city walls, bridges, houses, roads and water conservancy projects. It is one of the main decoration materials of modern civil engineering.

Natural stone can be roughly divided into 3 categories. Igneous rocks are formed by cooling and solidifying rocks in the mantle or crust of the earth's mantle or partially melted substances such as magma. Granite is a type of igneous rocks; Eruptions, rocks formed by the transport, deposition, and diagenesis of water or glaciers, and sandstones belong to this category; metamorphic rocks are naturally metamorphosed from one type of stone to another under the mixing of high temperature, high pressure, and minerals , Marble, slate, quartzite, and jade are all metamorphic rocks.

Granite is a very hard igneous rock that is dense and resistant to scratches and corrosion. It's perfect for floors and kitchen countertops. There are hundreds of varieties of granite.
Marble refers to sedimentary or metamorphic carbonate rocks, including marble, dolomite, limestone, sandstone, shale and slate, etc., which are derivatives of limestone. Marble is a metamorphic rock that can be polished and polished . Marble is soft and easily scratched or corroded by acidic substances. There are countless types of marble around the world, and we recommend new wood grain jade blocks.
Limestone is a type of sedimentary rock that is composed of calcite and sediments that form the various colors.

Sandstone is also a kind of sedimentary stone, which is mainly composed of loose quartz sand particles and has a rough texture. Sandstone also has many varieties to choose from.

Slate is a metamorphic rock, the original rock is argillaceous, silty or neutral tuff, which can be peeled into thin slices along the direction of slab. The color of slate varies with the impurities it contains. Iron-containing slate is red or yellow; carbon-containing slate is black or gray; Green slate, black slate, calcareous slate, etc. Artificial stone is made of non-natural mixtures, such as resin, cement, glass beads, aluminum stone powder, etc. plus crushed stone binder. Artificial stone (also known as "artificial marble"). Artificial stone came out in the United States 30 years ago. The earliest application of artificial stone products as decorative materials in my country was in some developed coastal cities in the mid-1990s, and it became widely popular a few years later.

Culture stone is a stone ore mined in nature, among which slate, sandstone, and quartz stone are processed to become a decorative building material. Cultural stone is hard, bright in color, rich in texture and different in style. It has the characteristics of compression resistance, wear resistance, fire resistance, cold resistance, corrosion resistance and low water absorption.

The so-called marble refers to sedimentary or metamorphic carbonate rocks, including marble, dolomite, limestone, sandstone, shale and slate. For example, the famous white marble in my country is the dolomite produced in Fangshan, Beijing, the Yunnan marble is the marble produced in Dali County, and the famous Dandong green is serpentinized skarn. Similarly, all kinds of igneous rocks mined as stone materials, such as andesite, diabase, green feldspar, gneiss, etc., are called granite. For example, the white granite in Baihujian in Beijing is granite, the green in Jinan is gabbro, and the black granite in Qingdao is diabase.

Artificial stone is a synthetic decorative material. According to the different binders used, it can be divided into two types: organic artificial stone and inorganic artificial stone. According to the different production processes, it can be divided into four types: polyester artificial marble, composite artificial marble, silicate artificial marble, and sintered artificial marble.