Estremoz Creme
Origin: Portugal
Type: Marble
Macroscopic Description
Rock with granoblastic texture and slightly deformed as is clearly shown by the cleavage lines of the calcite grains
Petrographic Description
Whitish-yellow marble with white rosy brownish and, sometimes, greyish small veins. Medium grained.
Physico-Mechanical Properties
- Compression Breaking Load: 953 Kg/cm2
- Compression Breaking Load after Freezing Test: 878 Kg/cm2
- Bending Strength: 300 Kg/cm2
- Volumetric Weight: 2714 Kg/m3
- Water Absorption: 0,07%
- Apparent Porosity: 0,19%
- Thermal Linear Expansion Coefficient: 10,5 (10^6 per ºC)
- Abrasion Test: 2,2 mm
- Impact Test: 45 cm
Chemical Properties
- Al2O3: 1,42%
- CaO: 52,8%
- Fe2O3: 0,31%
- K2O: 0,82%
- MgO: 0,08%
- MnO: 0,01%
- Na2O: 0,08%
- P. R.: 41,26%
- SiO2: 3,22%
Microscopical Properties
- Calcite: 99%
- Others: 1%