Marble, the Glossary
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.[1]
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Acid
An acid is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. hydrogen ion, H+), known as a Brønsted–Lowry acid, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair, known as a Lewis acid.
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Acid rain
Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH).
Acrylic resin
Polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate is a typical acrylate resin. An acrylic resin is a thermoplastic or thermosetting plastic substance typically derived from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and acrylate monomers such as butyl acrylate and methacrylate monomers such as methyl methacrylate.
Aegean Islands
The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.
Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Apuan Alps
The Apuan Alps (Alpi Apuane) are a mountain range in northern Tuscany, Italy.
Aranđelovac
Aranđelovac (Аранђеловац) is a town and a municipality located in the Šumadija District of central Serbia.
Ashgabat
Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat) is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan.
Attica
Attica (Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or, or), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
The Basque Country (Euskadi; País Vasco), also called the Basque Autonomous Community, is an autonomous community in northern Spain.
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Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.
Biscay
Biscay (Bizkaia; Vizcaya) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Vascongadas, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay.
Brazilian imperial family
The Imperial House of Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese: Casa Imperial Brasileira) is a Brazilian dynasty of Portuguese origin that ruled the Brazilian Empire from 1822 to 1889, from the time when the then ''Prince Royal'' Dom Pedro of Braganza (later known as Emperor Pedro I of Brazil) declared Brazil's independence, until Dom Pedro II was deposed during the military coup that led to the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889.
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British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
Building material
Building material is material used for construction.
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Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Marble and Calcite are limestone.
Calcium
Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.
Calcium carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula. Marble and Calcium carbonate are limestone.
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Caraș-Severin County
Caraș-Severin is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Serbia.
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Carbonate mineral
Carbonate minerals are those minerals containing the carbonate ion,.
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Carbonate rock
Carbonate rocks are a class of sedimentary rocks composed primarily of carbonate minerals.
Carbonation
Carbonation is the chemical reaction of carbon dioxide to give carbonates, bicarbonates, and carbonic acid.
Carbonic acid
Carbonic acid is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
Carrara
Carrara is a town and comune in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there.
Carrara marble
Carrara marble, or Luna marble to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor.
Cathedral of Petrópolis
The Cathedral of Saint Peter of Alcantara (Catedral de São Pedro de Alcântara), also known as the Cathedral of Petrópolis, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Petrópolis, Brazil, dedicated to the city's patron saint, Peter of Alcantara.
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Chariot clock
A chariot clock is a type of mantel/table figural clock in the form of a chariot whose dial is set into the wheel or elsewhere, its origins date back to the second half of the 16th century southern Germany.
Chert
Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Cladosporium
Cladosporium is a genus of fungi including some of the most common indoor and outdoor molds.
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Classical sculpture
Classical sculpture (usually with a lower case "c") refers generally to sculpture from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, as well as the Hellenized and Romanized civilizations under their rule or influence, from about 500 BC to around 200 AD.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4). Marble and clay are sculpture materials.
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Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Κλεοπάτρα Θεά ΦιλοπάτωρThe name Cleopatra is pronounced, or sometimes in British English, see, the same as in American English.. Her name was pronounced in the Greek dialect of Egypt (see Koine Greek phonology);Also "Thea Neotera", lit.
Clio
In Greek mythology, Clio (Κλειώ), also spelled Kleio, Сleio, or Cleo, is the muse of history, or in a few mythological accounts, the muse of lyre-playing.
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Color
Color (American English) or colour (British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Connemara marble
Connemara marble or "Irish green" is a rare variety of green marble from Connemara, Ireland.
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Construction
Construction is a general term meaning the art and science of forming objects, systems, or organizations.
Construction aggregate
Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Marble and construction aggregate are stone (material).
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Creole marble
Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble, is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia, United States.
Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
Debris
Debris is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, or, as in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier, etc.
Dimension stone
Dimension stone is natural stone or rock that has been selected and finished (e.g., trimmed, cut, drilled or ground) to specific sizes or shapes.
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Dolmabahçe Palace
Dolmabahçe Palace (Dolmabahçe Sarayı) located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European coast of the Bosporus strait, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922 (Yıldız Palace was used in the interim period).
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Dolomite (mineral)
Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite (see Dolomite (rock)).
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Dolomite (rock)
Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.
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Elgin Marbles
The Elgin Marbles are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Etowah marble
Etowah marble, also called Georgia pink marble, is a marble with a characteristic pink, salmon, or rose color that comes from quarries near Tate, Georgia.
Eye protection
Eye protection is protective gear for the eyes, and sometimes face, designed to reduce the risk of injury.
Foliation (geology)
Foliation in geology refers to repetitive layering in metamorphic rocks.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Geography of Greece
Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula.
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Geologist
A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.
Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Georgia Marble Company
The Georgia Marble Company was founded in 1884 by Samuel Tate.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gilmer County, Georgia
Gilmer County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Grain size
Grain size (or particle size) is the diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks.
Grand Antique marble
Grand Antique marble (also Celtic marble (marmor celticum), Grand Antique of Aubert, and known in Roman times as Marmor Aquitanicum), is a prestigious marble, composed of clasts of black limestone and white calcite, quarried near Aubert-Moulis in France.
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Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.
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Gravestone
A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.
Great Mosque of Kairouan
The Great Mosque of Kairouan (جامع القيروان الأكبر), also known as the Mosque of Uqba (جامع عقبة بن نافع), is a mosque situated in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan, Tunisia and is one of the largest Islamic monuments in North Africa.
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Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Hardness
In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by pressing or abrasion.
Hebei
Hebei is a province in North China.
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Hiding power
The hiding power is an ability of a paint to hide the surface that the paint was applied to.
Holston Formation
The Holston Formation, alternately known as the Holston Limestone, is a stratigraphic unit of Ordovician age within the Chickamauga Group in the Ridge-and-Valley physiographic province of the southeastern United States.
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Hydrochloric acid
Hydrochloric acid, also known as muriatic acid or spirits of salt, is an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl).
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Ion
An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.
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Iron oxide
Iron oxides are chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen.
Isotropy
In physics and geometry, isotropy is uniformity in all orientations.
Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Italian Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula (Italian: penisola italica or penisola italiana), also known as the Italic Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula or Italian Boot, is a peninsula extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south, which comprises much of the country of Italy and the enclaved microstates of San Marino and Vatican City.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Kairouan
Kairouan, also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan (al-Qayrawān, Qeirwān), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Karelia
Karelia (Karelian and Karjala; Kareliya, historically Коре́ла, Korela; Karelen) is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Russia (including the Soviet era), Finland, and Sweden.
Kolmården
Kolmården is a long and wide densely forested rocky ridge that separates the Swedish provinces of Södermanland and Östergötland, two of the country's main agricultural areas, from each other, and in historic times, along with Tylöskog and Tiveden, formed the border between the land of the Swedes and the land of the Geats.
Kremlin
The Moscow Kremlin (Moskovskiy Kreml'), or simply the Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia.
Languages of Europe
There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family.
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Laocoön and His Sons
The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group (Gruppo del Laocoonte), has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures since it was excavated in Rome in 1506 and put on public display in the Vatican Museums, where it remains today.
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Layered intrusion
A layered intrusion is a large sill-like body of igneous rock which exhibits vertical layering or differences in composition and texture.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. Marble and Limestone are stone (material).
Magnesium carbonate
Magnesium carbonate, (archaic name magnesia alba), is an inorganic salt that is a colourless or white solid.
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Makrana
Makrana is an urban city located at the centre of Rajasthan in Kuchaman City District.
Makrana marble
Makrana marble is a type of white marble, popular for use in sculpture and building decor.
Marble Arch
The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England.
Marble Falls, Texas
Marble Falls is a city in Burnet County, Texas, United States.
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Marble Hill, Manhattan
Marble Hill is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Marble Rocks
The Marble Rocks is an area along the Narmada River in central India near the city of Jabalpur; in Bhedaghat of Jabalpur District, in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Marble sculpture
Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before refracting it in subsurface scattering.
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Marble, Colorado
The Town of Marble is a Statutory Town in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
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Marble, Minnesota
Marble is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States.
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Marblehead, Massachusetts
Marblehead is a coastal New England town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, along the North Shore.
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Marblehead, Ohio
Marblehead is a village in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States.
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Markina-Xemein
Markina-Xemein is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, Bizkaia, in the Basque Autonomous Community, also known as the Basque Country, located in northern Spain.
Marmara Island
Marmara Island is a Turkish island in the Sea of Marmara.
Marmorino
Marmorino Veneziano is a type of plaster or stucco.
Mediterranean Basin
In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin, also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.
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Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
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Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.
Methylophaga muralis
Methylophaga muralis is a species of Pseudomonadota.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.
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Milan Cathedral
Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano; Domm de Milan), or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Basilica cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Nascente), is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
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Mineralogy
Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts.
Mount Pentelicus
Mount Pentelicus or Pentelikon is a mountain in Attica, Greece, situated northeast of Athens and southwest of Marathon.
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Muses
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Moûsai, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts.
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Nagaur district
Nagaur District is one of the 50 districts of the state of Rajasthan in western India.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.
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National Statuary Hall
The National Statuary Hall is a chamber in the United States Capitol devoted to sculptures of prominent Americans.
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Naxian marble
Naxian marble is a large-crystaled white marble which is quarried from the Cycladic Island of Naxos in Greece.
Nero Marquina marble
Nero Marquina marble (mármol negro Marquina) is a high quality, black bituminous limestone extracted from the region of Markina, Basque Country in the North of Spain.
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North Macedonia
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.
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Occupational safety and health
Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS) is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work (i.e., while performing duties required by one's occupation).
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
Pažaislis Monastery
Monastery Pažaislis Monastery and the Church of the Visitation (Pažaislio vienuolynas ir Švenčiausios Mergelės Marijos apsilankymo pas Elžbietąbažnyčia, Klasztor w Pożajściu) form the largest monastery complex in Lithuania, and the most renowned example of Baroque architecture in the country.
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Paper marbling
Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone.
Parian marble
Parian marble is a fine-grained, semi translucent, and pure-white marble quarried during the classical era on the Greek island of Paros in the Aegean Sea.
Paros
Paros (Πάρος; Venetian: Paro) is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea.
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Parthenon
The Parthenon (Παρθενώνας|Parthenónas|) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.
Pedro II of Brazil
Dom PedroII (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed the Magnanimous (O Magnânimo), was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years.
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Pelagonia Statistical Region
The Pelagonia Statistical Region (Пелагониски Регион) is one of eight statistical regions of North Macedonia.
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Per Hasselberg
Per Hasselberg (1 January 1850 – 25 July 1894), until 1870 Karl Petter Åkesson, was a Swedish sculptor.
Permissible exposure limit
The permissible exposure limit (PEL or OSHA PEL) is a legal limit in the United States for exposure of an employee to a chemical substance or physical agent such as high level noise.
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Pickens County, Georgia
Pickens County is a county located in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Pietra dura
Pietra dura or pietre dure (see below), called parchin kari or parchinkari (پرچین کاری) in the Indian Subcontinent, is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images.
Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.
Poiana Ruscă Mountains
The Poiana Ruscă Mountains (part of the Western Carpathians) are a Carpathian mountain range in western Romania.
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Praetorians Relief
The Praetorians Relief is a Roman marble relief dated to AD from the Arch of Claudius in Rome, now housed in the Louvre-Lens.
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Pre-Greek substrate
The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown Pre-Indo-European languages spoken in prehistoric Greece prior to the emergence of the Proto-Greek language in the region, during the Early Helladic period.
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Prilep
Prilep (Прилеп) is the fourth-largest city in North Macedonia.
Proctor, Vermont
Proctor is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.
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Protolith
A protolith is the original, unmetamorphosed rock from which a given metamorphic rock is formed.
Quarry
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground.
Quyang County
Quyang County is under the administration of Baoding City, Hebei province, China.
Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
Recommended exposure limit
A recommended exposure limit (REL) is an occupational exposure limit that has been recommended by the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Refractive index
In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is a dimensionless number that gives the indication of the light bending ability of that medium.
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Robert S. P. Beekes
Robert Stephen Paul Beekes (2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was emeritus professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and an author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European language.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Rușchița marble
Rușchița marble (Ruščica; Рушчица; Ruskica márvány; Ruschitza-Marmor) is a mainly reddish, pinkish or white calcitic marble found in Romania.
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Ruin marble
Ruin marble is a kind of limestone or siltstone that contains light and dark patterns. Marble and Ruin marble are limestone.
Ruskeala
Ruskeala (Рускеала) is a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.
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Sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.
Södermanland
Södermanland, locally Sörmland, sometimes referred to under its Latinized form Sudermannia or Sudermania, is a historical province (or landskap) on the south eastern coast of Sweden.
Scagliola
Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning "chips") is a type of fine plaster used in architecture and sculpture.
Sea of Marmara
The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey.
Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
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Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
Serpentine subgroup
Serpentine subgroup (part of the kaolinite-serpentine group in the category of phyllosilicates) are greenish, brownish, or spotted minerals commonly found in serpentinite.
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Silicate mineral
Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
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Silicosis
Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust.
Silt
Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.
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Sivec
Sivec is the trademark of the dolomitic marble extracted from the quarries of Mermeren Kombinat A.D., near the town of Prilep in North Macedonia.
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South Aegean
The South Aegean (translit) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.
Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Stonemasonry
Stonemasonry or stonecraft is the creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone as the primary material. Marble and Stonemasonry are stone (material).
Stress (mechanics)
In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation.
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Striation (geology)
In geology, a striation is a groove, created by a geological process, on the surface of a rock or a mineral.
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Sulfation
Sulfation is the chemical reaction that entails the addition of SO3 group.
Sunne, Sweden
Sunne is a locality and the seat of Sunne Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 10,000 inhabitants in 2010.
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Swedish green marble
Swedish green marble, or simply Swedish green, is a marble from quarries in Kolmården, in the north-eastern part of the province of Östergötland in Sweden.
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Sylacauga marble
Sylacauga marble, also commonly known as Alabama marble, is a marble that is found in a belt running through Talladega County, Alabama. Marble and Sylacauga marble are symbols of Alabama.
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Talladega County, Alabama
Talladega County is one of the sixty-seven counties located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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Tennessee marble
Tennessee marble is a type of crystalline limestone found only in East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Marble and Tennessee marble are limestone.
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Texture (geology)
In geology, texture or rock microstructure refers to the relationship between the materials of which a rock is composed.
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The Marble Faun
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860.
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Titanium dioxide
Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania, is the inorganic compound derived from titanium with the chemical formula.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.
Tuscany
Italian: toscano | citizenship_it.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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Vatican Museums
The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani; Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City, enclave of Rome.
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Värmland
Värmland is a landskap (historical province) in west-central Sweden.
Vein (geology)
In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
Venčac
Venčac (Serbian Cyrillic: Венчац) is a mountain in central Serbia, near the town of Aranđelovac.
Verd antique
Verd antique (obsolete French, from Italian, verde antico, "ancient green"), also called verde antique, marmor thessalicum, or Ophite, is a serpentinite breccia popular since ancient times as a decorative facing stone.
Vermont Marble Museum
The Vermont Marble Museum or Vermont Marble Exhibit is a museum commemorating the contributions of Vermont marble and the Vermont Marble Company, located in Proctor, Vermont, United States.
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William Wetmore Story
William Wetmore Story (February 12, 1819 – October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor.
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Winged Victory of Samothrace
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea.
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Word stem
In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning.
Wunsiedel
italic (Northern Bavarian: Wåuṉsieḏl or Wousigl) is the seat of the Upper Franconian district of italic in northeast Bavaria, Germany.
Wunsiedel Marble
Wunsiedel Marble (Wunsiedler Marmor) is a group of metamorphic carbonate rocks, which were, and are, mainly extracted in the German town Wunsiedel at several quarries.
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Yule Marble
Yule Marble is a marble of metamorphosed Leadville Limestone found only in the Yule Creek Valley, in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, southeast of the town of Marble, Colorado. Marble and Yule Marble are sculpture materials.
See also
Metasedimentary rocks
Symbols of Alabama
- Alabama (Julia Tutwiler song)
- Alabama State Bible
- Alabama Theatre
- Alabama red-bellied cooter
- Alabama state creed
- American black bear
- American black bears
- Atlantic tarpon
- Audemus jura nostra defendere
- Bama (soil)
- Basilosaurus
- Camellia
- Coat of arms of Alabama
- Conecuh Ridge Whiskey
- Flag of Alabama
- Hematite
- Hydrangea quercifolia
- Lane cake
- Largemouth bass
- List of Alabama state symbols
- Longleaf pine
- Marble
- Monarch butterfly
- Northern flicker
- Papilio glaucus
- Peach
- Pecan
- Racking Horse
- Red Hills salamander
- Rubus occidentalis
- Scaphella junonia
- Seal of Alabama
- Square dance
- Sweet potato
- Sylacauga marble
- Wild turkey
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble
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