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Have you ever been invited to your boss's place for dinner and while the big boys discuss world domination or the next major company project, your wives gush over the countertop. Well, whether they do gush or not, you have to admit that is one snazzy looking countertop. You ask what that counter top is made of, you get the answer: granite. Well, just for basic information here are a few tips and things on what they go through to keep that countertop snazzy and classy as it is.

Granite tiles are made from granite that generally is a kind of rock that is formed from hot volcanic magma. For granite magma to form it must first break into other rocks. This only happens at 1.5 kilometers to fifty kilometers downward deep within the crust of the earth. Now, how did they get from there to the ones at home?

Granites aren't just any kind of nice looking rock, they are actually classified into two types, I-type granite and S-type granite. Igneous granite is the I-type granite. Both S-types and I-types are formed by melting metamorphic or volcanic rocks beneath the earth. I-type granites are specifically made from further heating and melting other already formed granite or depleted or worn-out mantle. Sedimentary granite or the S-type granite, on the other hand is made from buried and sub ducted sediments. Another type of granite is M-type granite, which consists of the mantle-derived granite that came from crystallized magmas that are mafic or have heavier types of metal elements in them like iron and aluminum.

In all types of cases, melting of solid rocks need high temperatures and a cooling factor most commonly water. Water acts like a catalyst in decreasing the temperature and solidifying the rock making it the granite that we see in households. This mineral-rich substance is composed of quartz, micas and feldspars plus many other traces of minerals found deep in the earth, which blend nicely together and give each piece of granite a unique characteristic unto itself.

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