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Denver Granite: Avanti Marble and Granite -
Travertine, Soapstone, Granite in Denver, Colorado
Webster's Definition for "granite"
Granite: - gran.ite \'gran-*t\ \gra-'nit-ik\ \'gran-*t-.o.id\
n [It granito, fr. pp. of granire to granulate, fr. grano grain], fr.
L granum
1: granite is a very hard natural igneous rock formation of visibly crystalline
texture formed essentially of quartz and orthoclase or microcline
and used for building and for monuments 2: unyielding firmness or
endurance - gra.nit.ic adj
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia... A granite counter top is a rock slab
that can be used as a cutting surface or a storage
surface.
 Granite is a common and widely-occurring group of intrusive felsic
igneous rocks that form at great depths and pressures under
continents. Granite consists of orthoclase and plagioclase
feldspars, quartz, hornblende, biotite, muscovite and minor
accessory minerals such as magnetite, garnet, zircon and apatite.
Rarely, a pyroxene is present. Denver Granite: Avanti Marble and
Granite - Travertine, Soapstone, Granite in Denver, Colorado. Ordinary granite always carries a
small amount of plagioclase, but when this is absent the rock is
referred to as alkali granite. An interesting proportion of
plagioclase feldspar causes granite to pass into granodiorite. A
rock consisting of equal proportions of orthoclase and plagioclase
plus quartz may be considered a quartz monzonite. A granite
containing both muscovite and biotite micas is called a binary
granite. Depending upon the proportions of feldspar and quartz, the
Mohs hardness of granite ranges between 5.5 and 7 [1]. The average
density is 2.75 g/cm3 with a range of 1.74 to 2.80.
The extrusive equivalent of plutonic granite rock is called Rhyolite.
The word granite comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference
to the coarse-grained structure of such a crystalline rock.
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