A final process using oxalic acid or a crystallising compound is sometimes used to increase the mirror like effect.
Polished limestone vs marble.
A polished finish is usually associated with marble.
Marbles granites and some of the harder finer grained limestones can be polished.
But if marble is not quite your thing we also offer polished porcelain which acts as a wonderful alternative.
A high gloss polish is achieved by grinding the surface of the stone with a series of increasingly fine diamond grit pads or compounds.
Limestone is a type of sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of natural carbonate material whereas marble is a type of metamorphic rock formed by metamorphism of limestone.
Walker zanger specializing in an array of limestone slabs.
Polished is the one of the most well known finishes.
While marble is slightly harder and denser than limestone both rate very low on the mohs scale a rating used to measure the hardness of stones.
Marble and limestone lie at the opposite end of the hardness scale from granite.
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The internal carbonate crystal structure of limestone and marble are different to each other.