Travertino Silver Slabs - Silver Travertine Polished Slabs

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Travertine Silver

Travertine is an incredibly resistant and compact natural stone , widely used in construction. In particular, travertine is a chemical sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium carbonate minerals.
The term travertine derives from "tiburtinus" as it comes largely from an area under Tivoli. Travertine, in fact, was one of the materials most used by the Romans for the construction of buildings and public works, so much so that it later became famous with the name Roman travertine. Among the most famous monuments worldwide made with travertine rock it is impossible not to mention the Colosseum , St. Peter's Basilica or the Trevi Fountain .
Travertine is considered an extremely versatile rock also due to the variety of colors in which it is available. The age of the stone and the incorporation of oxides and other impurities (a normal phenomenon given the porosity of this rock) gives life to a series of different travertines in addition to the classic travertine with many shades starting from milky white up to walnut, as well as from pink to scarlet red .

Is travertine marble?

One of the first questions asked when talking about travertine marble is the following: is travertine marble or not? The answer is quite simple: no. However, it is important to clarify why we often hear travertine marble spoken of in a completely natural way, even by experts in the stone sector.

Technically, according to the geological classification of rocks , marble and travertine are two different things: travertine is part of the sedimentary limestone rocks , while marble is a metamorphic rock . To simplify, a sedimentary rock originates from the deposition of sediments over time, while a metamorphic rock originates from a sedimentary rock which also undergoes significant changes in pressure and temperature, with times that can reach up to millions of years.

The classification of marble, granite, travertine and stone is a type of commercial classification , not a geological one: the Romans, for example, used the term "marmora" to generically define polishable stones. For this reason, it is not strange to hear "travertine marble" pronounced in common language.

Ultimately, travertine is very often sold as marble or limestone but in reality travertine, from a technical point of view, represents neither of the two since travertine rock is characterized by a completely different geological formation process , which it can be found not only from a chemical and physical point of view, but also from a visual point of view.

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