?A NOTE ON PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL TESTS ON SOME DIMENSION STONES

?Short Communication

Abstract

Recent years have seen the development of a new "Stone
Age" with the considerable increase in the use, production
and awareness of dimension stones (Rees 1991). Dimension
stone is a natural building stone that is selected, trimmed or
cut to specified or indicated shapes or sizes with or without
one or more mechanically dressed surface (Harben and Pardy,
1991). Materials constituting dimension stones are varied
and may include granite, limestone, onyx, marble, slate, sand-
stone, quartzite and serpentine. In Pakistan, like other parts
of the world the demand of marble, onyx, granite and other
dimension stones is fast growing.