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What is the difference between marble and quartzite?

What is the difference between marble and quartzite?

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The geological term for quartz, usually of low temperature quartz (alpha quartz), the most widely distributed mineral in the quartz group. Broad quartz also includes high temperature quartz (beta quartz), quartz and so on. The main component is SiO2, colorless and transparent, often containing a small amount of impurities, and become translucent or opaque crystal, hard texture. Quartz is a kind of mineral resource with stable physical and chemical properties. The crystal is an oxide mineral of three square system. Also known as quartz block silica, mainly the production of quartz sand (also called silica) raw material is quartz refractory material and firing ferrosilicon raw materials.
Dali (English: Marble) iwahara refers to Yunnan province Dali white with black pattern of limestone profile can form a natural landscape painting, ancient times often select has a molded marble used for making screen or marble mosaic, later the name evolved into a variety of color patterns all call used to do, building decoration materials limestone. Commonly known as the white marble white marble, but on the translation of Western made of white marble or marble statue. As to the name of marble, there is a saying that the quality of marble in Dali was the best in our country before. Hence its name.
The marble material is the main component of limestone CaCO, is the main composition of the quartz material is SiO2. Marble as building materials, quartz stone, quartz sand, quartz refractories and calcined ferrosilicon raw materials.

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