Creme Lagoa
Origin: Portugal
Type: Marble
Macroscopic Description
Medium grained rock with granoblastic texture
Petrographic Description
Fine grained marble with rosy white-yellow, bright white-yellow and indigo-white colours, sometimes presenting light greyish or brownish spots.
Physico-Mechanical Properties
- Compression Breaking Load: 712 Kg/cm2
- Compression Breaking Load after Freezing Test: 905 Kg/cm2
- Bending Strength: 214 Kg/cm2
- Volumetric Weight: 2706 Kg/m3
- Water Absorption: 0,11%
- Apparent Porosity: 0,32%
- Thermal Linear Expansion Coefficient: 11 (10^6 per ºC)
- Abrasion Test: 2,6 mm
- Impact Test: 72,5 cm
Chemical Properties
- Al2O3: 1%
- CaO: 51,87%
- Fe2O3: 0,18%
- K2O: 0,25%
- MgO: 0,45%
- Na2O: 0,1%
- P. R.: 41,32%
- SiO2: 4,67%
- TiO2: 0,01%
Microscopical Properties
- Calcite: 98%
- Others: 2%