Industrial Marbles Uses

These clear industrial marbles measure approx 14mm each sizes may vary.

Industrial marbles uses.

Lof was a producer of plate and automotive glass. History small round objects made from stone have been unearthed in the excavations of ancient cultures. We offer our marbles in the following sizes to fulfill every need that your. These glass pieces can be used for a wide variety of projects such as decorative pieces for flower arranging or as agitators in.

Occasionally as at carrara. An all time best seller. Crushed marbles are soft easily soluble and rich in calcium. The company s marbles are used in water filtration systems to mix paint in spray cans even in tests conducted on board nasa spacecraft.

These are some popular uses of marble. Cleaning or processing marbles ferrara says that the pennsylvania sand company used large 2 diameter marbles in the bottom of hopper cars to help the flow of sand when emptying. 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. It is used for its optical properties in cosmetics paint and paper.

Marbles are also melted down to make fiberglass used in automotive bodies and draperies. Marbles often occur interbedded with such metamorphic rocks as mica schists phyllites gneisses and granulites and are most common in the older layers of earth s crust that have been deeply buried in regions of extreme folding and igneous intrusion. Bulk clear 14mm industrial marbles. Another online message board says that lof made industrial glass marbles from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Small clear flower arranging vase marbles or industrial marbles. The most common use of marble that we can relate to is its use as a tombstone or cemetery markers. About 45 percent is industrial applications. Marble has many unique properties that make it a valuable rock in many different industries.

Powdered marble are also often used to produce animal supplements. It is used because it is an abundant low cost commodity in crushed stone prepared for construction projects. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material. Marbles are not only used as toys but they are also used in filtration systems as a mixing aid in spray paint cans and have even been used by nasa in a space balloon for different gauge tests.

Our marbles have been used to fulfill multiple industrial applications. Marbles have numerous industrial uses as well they are the noise inside a can of spray paint and the translucent letters and numbers on a road sign.