Rosa Lagoa
Origin: Portugal
Type: Marble
Macroscopic Description
Medium grained rock with granoblastic texture
Petrographic Description
Bright whitish-yellow and rose marble, fine to medium grained, with greenish-grey and reddish small veins.
Physico-Mechanical Properties
- Compression Breaking Load: 848 Kg/cm2
- Compression Breaking Load after Freezing Test: 957 Kg/cm2
- Bending Strength: 196 Kg/cm2
- Volumetric Weight: 2713 Kg/m3
- Water Absorption: 0,07%
- Apparent Porosity: 0,2%
- Thermal Linear Expansion Coefficient: 10,8 (10^6 per ºC)
- Abrasion Test: 3,1 mm
- Impact Test: 57,5 cm
Chemical Properties
- Al2O3: 0,64%
- CaO: 53,72%
- Fe2O3: 0,19%
- K2O: 0,18%
- MgO: 0,54%
- Na2O: 0,06%
- P. R.: 42,96%
- SiO2: 1,47%
Microscopical Properties
- Calcite: 99%
- Others: 1%