Rosa Portugal
Origin: Portugal
Type: Marble
Macroscopic Description
Rock with paved-like granoblastic texture
Petrographic Description
Rose and white yellow medium grained marble, with greyish veins.
Physico-Mechanical Properties
- Compression Breaking Load: 740 Kg/cm2
- Compression Breaking Load after Freezing Test: 860 Kg/cm2
- Bending Strength: 154 Kg/cm2
- Volumetric Weight: 2715 Kg/m3
- Water Absorption: 0,05%
- Apparent Porosity: 0,14%
- Thermal Linear Expansion Coefficient: 16,4 (10^6 per ºC)
- Abrasion Test: 1,7 mm
- Impact Test: 50 cm
Chemical Properties
- Al2O3: 0,1%
- CaO: 53,98%
- Fe2O3: 0,08%
- K2O: 0,1%
- MgO: 1,15%
- MnO: 0,01%
- Na2O: 0,55%
- P. R.: 43,91%
- SiO2: 0,12%
Microscopical Properties
- Calcite: 99%
- Others: 1%