FIOR DI AURISINA

Fior di Aurisina stone is a marble quarried Karst. Recommended use tiling internal and external stairs. Background color gray, grayish-brown. Limestone breccia compact organogenic origin (Upper Cretaceous), consisting of a rich population of organic fragments, shape and size very variable, immersed in a mass of the bottom of calcareous cement microcrystalline.

Place of Extraction

ITALIA Aurisina (Trieste)

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION

CaCO3: 99,12%
MgCO3: 0,83%
FeCO3: 0,04%
Insoluble residue in HCL: traces

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Wheight for unit of volume:	2636	Kg/m3
Water Absorption (by weight):	10.6	°/°°
Compressive Strength:	1455	Kg/cm2
Compressive strength after freezing:	1607	Kg/cm2
Strenght to bending:	137	Kg/cm2
Thermal linear expansion coefficient:	0.0044	mm/ml °C
Average Abrasion Strenght:	3.22	mm
Impact test (min. fall height):	31	cm