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  2. Engineered stone - Wikipedia

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    The application of these products depends on the original stone used. For engineered marbles the most common application is indoor flooring and walls, while the quartz based product is used primarily for kitchen countertops [2] as an alternative to laminate or granite. [3] Related materials include geopolymers and cast stone.

  3. Granolithic - Wikipedia

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    Granolithic screed, also known as granolithic paving [1] and granolithic concrete, [2] is a type of construction material composed of cement and fine aggregate such as granite or other hard-wearing rock. [3] It is generally used as flooring, or as paving (such as for sidewalks).

  4. Granite - Wikipedia

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    Granite (/ ˈ ɡ r æ n ɪ t / GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground. It is common in the continental crust of Earth, where it is found in igneous ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Woodbury Granite Company - Wikipedia

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    The Woodbury Granite Company (WGC) was a producer of rough and finished granite products. Incorporated in 1887, purchased and significantly reorganized in 1896, and expanded by merger in 1902 and thereafter, the company operated quarries principally in Woodbury, Vermont, but its headquarters and stone-finishing facilities were located in nearby Hardwick.

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