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Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate). The primary source of this calcite is usually marine organisms. These organisms secrete shells that settle out of the water column and are deposited on ocean floors as pelagic ooze (see lysocline for information on calcite dissolution). Secondary calcite may also be deposited by supersaturated meteoric waters (groundwater that precipitates the material in caves). This produces speleothems such as stalagmites and stalactites. Limestone makes up approximately 10 percent of the total volume of all sedimentary rocks.

Ceramic wall and floor tiles have each played an important role in architecture throughout history. The decorative application of ceramic in architecture has a rich and colorful past that stretches back through time from the ancient civilizations to the twenty first century.

Both functional and decorative, the ceramics material potential and advantages are unlimited in everyday applications in terms of hygiene and durability.

Ceramics industries had always worked closely with the world of architecture and interior designer who are constantly searching for new and innovative materials to use in their projects.

Marble is formed from limestone by heat and pressure in the earth's crust. These forces caused the limestone to change in texture and makeup. This process is called recrystallization.

Fossilized minerals in the limestone, along with it's original carbonate minerals, recrystallize and form largel, coarse grains of calcite. Impurities present in the limestone during this process affect the mineral composition of the marble that forms.

The minerals that result from impurities gives marble a wide variety of colours while purest calcite marble is white. Most marble of commercial value was formed in the Palaeozoic Era or earlier in Percambrian time.

Granite is the most abundant rock in the crust of the earth. It is a visibly crystalline, coarse-grained igenous rock, often resulting from the slow-cooling and solidification of magma or liquid rock.

Granites are usually light in colour with gray predominant but pink, red yellow and even green granite are by no means unknown.

The texture of granites is even and most of the crystal grains are formless, due to crowding during growth. The principal occurrence of granite is in batholiths, which are masses of rocks measuring many miles in horizontal dimensions and extending to unknown depth.

Homogenous tiles or Porcelain tiles are the most widely produced material in the ceramics industries.

Over the years, the market has gradually been educated and has learned to appreciate the beauty and quality of homogenous tiles.

Innovative procedures carried out during the pressing and firing of the raw material assure an attractive aesthetic appearance that already has outstanding physical and chemical characteristics.

As as result, we are seeing more homogenous tiles everywhere: in shops, hotels, shopping centres, supermarkets and airports. Homogenous tiles has allowed the ceramics industries to achieve on of its long-term goals, that of breaking out from its conventional area of residential application and competing successfully with other floor and wall covering materials.

Mosaics is a decorative work of art that has been practised for centuries and uses small fragment of glass, ceramics or stone to create pictures or patterns.

The earliest mosaics were discovered in Asia minor and ancient China. These were simple patterns made with pebbles. Mosaics decorative art reached its zenith during the Greek, Aztec and Roman time. Currently, there are many different types of mosaics which include these popular ones; Mesh-mount mosaics, Vitreous(glass) mosaics, Porcelain mosaics, Stoneware mosaics and Hydraulic mosaics.