Beige - Limestone
Quarry Location: Liguria, Genoa
Water Absorption: 13.3 %
Density: 1910 kg/m3
Flexural Strength: 3.0 MPa
Compressive Strength: 17.7 - 19.9 MPa
Recommended Usage: kitchen and bathroom countertops, monuments, building stone, ornamental stone, stairs, interior, exterior wall and floor applications, mosaic, waterjet pattern
Finishing Surface: Polished, Bush Hammered, Tumbled, Brushed, Honed, Split, Machine Cut, Natural Surface, Sandblasted, Acid Washing, Combed, Leathered, Water Jet, Filled, Chiseled, Pickling
Additional Names: Pietra Castelgavone, Pietra Castelgavone Limestone, Castelgavone Limestone, Pietra di Castelgavone Limestone, Pietra di Castelgavone
Petrographic definition: fossiliferous limestone
Massa Unit Volume: 1910 Kg / m3
Water Absorption: 13.3%
Simple Compression Breaking Load: 19.9 MPa
Compression breaking load after freezing: 17.7 MPa
Tangent Modulus of elasticity: 8.580 MPa
Indirect Tensile Strength by Flexing: 3.0 MPa
Coefficient of relative Abrasion (referred to Granite St. Fedelino): 0.30
Impact resistance: minimum fall height: 34 cm
Coefficient of linear thermal expansion: 9.2 x 10-5 0C-1
Knoop microhardness 1256 MPa
Index of non-uniformity of hardness: 2.79
Source: Università di Pisa - Politecnico di Torino