Uses of stones
Category: Civil Engineering
7 May 18
- Broken stones and chips are used for foundation, roofs, and floors of the building and as road metal and railway ballast.
- Stones blocks are mainly used in walls, foundation, and ornamental facial work.
- Quartzite is used for rubble masonry, road metalling and also as aggregate for concrete.
- Limestone slabs are used for flooring, paving, and roofing.
- Slates are used as roofing and flooring material.
- Granite is used for important works like bridge abutments, pipers etc.
- Marble is extremely suitable for the ornamental and superior type of building work.
- Crushed stone is used as an alternative substitute for artificial sand.
- Insulators in electrical appliances.
- Good and durable construction material.
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