Re: What is it with this granite counter top fad? Is it a sign of total decadence and the decline and fall of America?


"Curly Sue" <address.in.sig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:23:14 -0700, sf <sf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:59:14 GMT, Curly Sue wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:33:05 -0400, "Dee Randall"
>>> <deedovey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >"Ward Abbott" <presby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> >> On 18 Sep 2005 08:58:45 -0700, perfb@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> >>
>><snip>
>>> >Quote,
>>> >"...but the latest material that's catching on is engineered
>>> quartz..."
>>> >
>>> >Somehow quartz and DuPont just don't seem to fit in my mind. Perhaps
>>> the
>>> >operative word is "engineered"?
>>> >Dee Dee
>>> >
>>>
>>> Don't forget, glass is also engineered quartz :)
>>>
>>Quartz glass: colorless glass made of almost pure silica
>>
>>Glass
>>A hard, brittle, translucent or transparent, substance which is made
>>by fusing silicates with soda or potash, lime and other metallic
>>oxides; it is then cooled rapidly to prevent crystallization.
>>
>>Silica is a very common mineral composed of silicon and oxygen (SiO2).
>>Silicates make up about 95% of the Earth's crust.
>>
>>Think: what is the composition of sand?
>
> The sand they make glass out of is quartz.
>
> Quartz: Crystallized silicon dioxide. A colorless, transparent
> rock-forming mineral with vitreous luster, crystallizing in the
> trigonal trapezohedral class of the rhombohedral subsystem; hardness
> is 7 on the mohs scale, and specific gravity is 2.65
>
> eg.
> amethyst: A common form of Quartz.
>
Dee Dee being silly, thinking:
"How could I redecorate my kitchen to coordinate with the beloved color for
old people: purple. Hmmm."



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