Creme do Mouro
Origin: Portugal
Type: Marble
Macroscopic Description
Fine to medium grained rock with granoblastic texture
Petrographic Description
Fine grained white-yellow marble, sometimes showing brownish or greyish small veins.
Physico-Mechanical Properties
- Compression Breaking Load: 912 Kg/cm2
- Compression Breaking Load after Freezing Test: 785 Kg/cm2
- Bending Strength: 240 Kg/cm2
- Volumetric Weight: 2715 Kg/m3
- Water Absorption: 0,07%
- Apparent Porosity: 0,19%
- Thermal Linear Expansion Coefficient: 16,3 (10^6 per ºC)
- Abrasion Test: 2,5 mm
- Impact Test: 55 cm
Chemical Properties
- Al2O3: 0,96%
- CaO: 53,67%
- Fe2O3: 0,12%
- K2O: 0,15%
- MgO: 0,86%
- MnO: 0,01%
- Na2O: 0,06%
- P. R.: 43,18%
- SiO2: 1,2%
Microscopical Properties
- Calcite: 99%
- Others: 1%