Yellow - Granite
Spain
Item Details
Quarry Location:
Ávila, Castile y León
Water Absorption:
0.20 %
Density:
2620 kg/m3
Flexural Strength:
12.8 MPa
Compressive Strength:
150.0 MPa
Recommended Usage:
Exterior - Interior wall and floor applications, monuments, countertops, mosaic, fountains, pool and
Finishing Surface:
Polished, Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Tumbled
Additional Names:
Monumental Yellow, Amarillo Monumental Granite,Amarillo Monumental
Description:
Granite quarried on the surface of the pluton in Avila what gives it its characteristic yellow color.
General Features:
- Origin: Avila
- Color: Yellow
Petrographic Description: Biotite Muscovite Leurogranite.
Grain size: Fine
Open porosity (%): 0.6
Bulk density (kg/m3): 2.620
Abrasion Resistance (mm): 19
Compressive strength (MPa): 150
Flexural strength under concentrated load (MPa): 12.8
Knoop microhardness (MPa): 2563
Water absorption by capillarity (g / m "· s0, 5): 0.546
Resistance to ice (% change after bending cycles): 0
Resistance to crystallization of salts: 0.04
Water absorption at atmospheric pressure (%): 0.2