How to Distinguish Between Quartz Stone and Granite?

The decorative materials have excellent decorative properties due to the rich color and natural harmony of the surface. The use of stone as a decorative material in interior decoration can give people a feeling of harmony, elegance, solemnity, elegance, luxury and so on. However, as people pay more and more attention to environmental protection decoration, the green quartz stone with no toxicity and no radiation and zero formaldehyde has been developed rapidly. Quartz stone is also called synthetic stone and artificial stone. In the purchase, many people will mistakenly buy a granite. Why does the stone have a fake quartz stone? As a Calacatta Quartz Slabs Manufacturer, let's talk to you.

Quartz stone is an artificial stone die-casting plate, the plate filler is more than 90% quartz and 7% resin is synthesized. The filler quartz sand used after decontamination does not contain harmful objects and radiation sources. Known as an indoor green decorative stone, the Custom Quartz Stone Surface price is much higher than other stone. Granite, also known as engineering stone, is also a kind of artificial stone, and its appearance is very similar to that of artificial quartz. However, the filler of the granite is natural gravel, that is, the stone scrap is reused, and it is applied to outdoor engineering decoration, and the price is relatively cheap.

Calacatta White Quartz Countertops

How to distinguish the two similar stones? Although Calacatta White Quartz Countertops and granite are both artificial stone die-cast sheets, the press pressure and production equipment are different. First, look at their specific gravity, quartz is higher than other stone, so the same size of the granite is much lighter. Then observe from the side, the quartz stone is evenly distributed in the artificial cloth particles, and the inside and outside are consistent. Finally, look at their hardness, the hardness of quartz is second only to diamond, its hardness is up to 7 grades of Mohs hardness, so there is no way to scratch the iron. The main thing is not to be cheap, after all, one point is worth the price.