What kind of stone? How are they good and bad?
Natural stone refers to the natural rock from the mining out, and processed into a block or plate-like material in general. Building decoration with the natural stone granite and marble are two major species.
The so-called marble is the deposition or deterioration of the rocks of the rocks, marble, dolomite, limestone, sandstone, shale and slate. Such as China's famous white marble is the Beijing Fangshan dolomite, Yunnan marble is produced in Dali County marble, the famous Dandong green was serpentine silicon carbide. Similarly, as a stone mining of various types of magmatic rocks, such as granite, andesite, diabase, green rock, gneiss, etc. called granite. Such as Beijing White Tiger Creek white granite is granite, Jinan green is gabbro, and Qingdao black granite is diabase.
Artificial stone is a synthetic decorative material. According to the use of different adhesives can be divided into organic man-made stone and inorganic artificial stone two categories. According to the different production process, can be divided into polyester artificial marble, composite artificial marble, silicate artificial marble, sintered artificial marble four types.
Four kinds of artificial stone decorative materials, organic (polyester type) the most commonly used, its physical and chemical properties are the best.
Building decorative stone with natural stone and artificial stone two categories, and to natural stone-based, it is a high-level decorative materials, mainly used for decorative grade demanding engineering, artificial stone is a lower grade of decorative materials , Only for medium and low-grade interior decoration works.