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Cultured Stone
From the depth of the centuries
In the interiors of the most varied accommodations - beginning from the apartments and the out-of-town houses, concluding by restaurants and by bars, ever greater popularity acquires artificial stone. Its properties help to personify any designer fantasies into the life. The decorative facing materials, which imitate marble, granite or rough unprocessed stone, decorate facades and interiors of many contemporary houses and apartments. Natural stone increasingly more will move away to the second plan, since artificial, both according to the external signs and |
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by feel the touch not drop is inferior to its prototype. Then it often is considerably more accessible on the price, yes even the fantasy of artist with the use of an artificial stone by anything is unconfined.
Is erroneous the opinion that the history of artificial stone counts altogether only several decades. It is obliged by its appearance to the centuries-old application of a natural stone with the erection of the different kind of buildings. People since olden times attempted to reproduce natural stone artificially. The artificial binding agents (such as gypsum and lime) began to make in Egypt, China and India more than in 3 thousand years B.C. they were obtained by means of the moderate heat working of source material. The appearance of artificial stone is inseparably connected with the advent of concrete. In ancient Egypt the secret of this solution was already known. Confirmation is the detection of the use of concrete in the tomb To Thebese, which is dated 1950 B.C. concrete was used with the building of the galleries of Egyptian labyrinth and monolithic arch of the pyramid of Nim several millennia back. Later it was provide by Romans and it was widely used by them with the erection of buildings. Specifically, because of it the excellent monuments of the architecture of the times of antiquity reached us. 2 century is B.C. considered the century of the highest bloom of concrete in the Roman empire.
Besides Egyptians and Romans, to create artificial building materials tried both in China and in India. Thus, the part of the Great Wall of China (3 century B.C.) was constructed with the aid of the concrete.
At the beginning of 20 centuries was noticed one of the most important properties of concrete - accurately reproduce the invoice of surface, on which it hardens. Specifically, this special feature began to be used with the production of the contemporary forms of artificial stones. For this was made the form of necessary size, whose internal surface copied the special features of any natural stone. And casting stone became the form of artificial stone very first used in the building.
In the West decorative stone on the basis of Portland cement appeared 20-30 years ago. Mode was turned facing the medieval castles, where stone everywhere in the interior is present. Interest in the walls from the cobblestones, the unprocessed rock blocks, the boulders and the chunks became grow, people increasingly more frequently tried to add these elements into their interior. Was necessary the material, capable of satisfying the needs of customers then came the time of artificial stone.
Now there are several ten forms of artificial stone, different in the color and the invoice. All this variety became fruit of creation of hundreds of generations, from the antique person, who for the first time mixed solution from the clay, to the contemporary
developments for improvement in the quality and creation all of the new forms of artificial stone. Monthly at the market appear the new configurations, whose quality with each at once rises. To select small key to its future interior with the aid of the artificial stone composes no problems. The main thing is your desire and fantasy.
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