Most commonly they are about 13 mm 1 2 in in diameter but they may range from less than 1 mm 1 30 in to over 8 cm 3 in while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30 cm 12 in wide marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles.
Marble stone terms.
Crushed stone is used as an aggregate in highways railroad beds building foundations and other types of construction.
These are used in monuments buildings sculptures paving and other projects.
Dimension stone is produced by sawing marble into pieces of specific dimensions.
Stone is naturally occurring earth material.
Most marble is made into either crushed stone or dimension stone.
Natural stone industry glossary glossary is usually defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge.
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone.
Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.
See engineered stone and cultured marble.
A manmade product attempting to replicate the look of natural stone.
A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size.