?A NOTE ON PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL TESTS ON SOME DIMENSION STONES

?Short Communication

Authors

  • Zubair Chughtai PCSIR Laboratories, Jamrud Road,Peshawar,Pakistan
  • Viqar Husain PCSIR, PPI Building Kamal Ataturk Road, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Mohammad Akifa PCSIR Laboratories, Jamrud Road,Peshawar,Pakistan

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ity and water absorption tests were also carried out on these samples. The compressive strength and specific gravity

Abstract

Recent years have seen the development of a new "Stone
Age" with the considerable increase in the use, production
and awareness of dimension stones (Rees 1991). Dimension
stone is a natural building stone that is selected, trimmed or
cut to specified or indicated shapes or sizes with or without
one or more mechanically dressed surface (Harben and Pardy,
1991). Materials constituting dimension stones are varied
and may include granite, limestone, onyx, marble, slate, sand-
stone, quartzite and serpentine. In Pakistan, like other parts
of the world the demand of marble, onyx, granite and other
dimension stones is fast growing.

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Published

1999-08-23

How to Cite

Chughtai, Z., Husain, V., & Akifa, M. (1999). ?A NOTE ON PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL TESTS ON SOME DIMENSION STONES: ?Short Communication. Biological Sciences - PJSIR, 42(4), 209–210. Retrieved from http://biostaging.pjsir.org/index.php/biological-sciences/article/view/2158

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 4 (1999): Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research

Section

Articles