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Continuing our If you find it difficult to understand terminology used in a granite busisness don't worry! Use our guide below to clarify technical mambo jamb.
- face
- this refers to the exposed portion of stone. The word "face" can also be used when referring to the edge treatment on various cutting stock materials.
- fascia
- a horizontal belt or vertical face; often used in combination with moldings.
- ferruginous
- limestone or sandstone containing a high proportion of iron oxide.
- field stone
- loose blocks separated from ledges by natural process and scattered through or upon the regolith ("soil") cover; applied also to similar transported materials, such as glacial boulders and cobbles.
- filling
- filling the natural voids and veins in a stone with material (cement, shellac, or synthetic resins and similar materials often mixed with stone fines).
- fines
- the residue resulting from the normal fabrication and processing of stone.
- finish
- the final appearance exposed stone slab surfaces are fabricated to meet.
- finished stone
- building stone with one or more mechanically dressed surface(s).
- fireproof
- relatively incombustible.
- flagstone
- thin slabs of stone used for flagging or paving walks, driveways, patios, etc. It is generally fine-grained sandstone, bluestone, quartzite or slate, but thin slabs of other stones may be used.
- fleuri cut
- cutting quarried marble or stone parallel to the natural bedding plane.
- flooring
- stone used as an interior pedestrian wearing surface.
- fracture
- a break in rock produced by mechanical failure. Fractures include faults and joints.
- freestone
- a stone that may be cut freely in any direction without fracture or splitting.
- frieze
- a belt course, sometimes decorated with sculpture relief, occurring just under a cornice.
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