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Exploring the Wonders of Marble: A Quiz on Its History and Properties

This quiz tests your knowledge on marble, covering its historical significance, scientific properties, and cultural relevance. Perfect for students and enthusiasts of geology and art!

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1 As the favorite medium for Greek and Roman sculptors and architects (see ________), marble has become a cultural symbol of tradition and refined taste.

2 This metamorphic process causes a complete recrystallization of the original rock into an interlocking mosaic of ________, aragonite and/or dolomite crystals.

3 Calcium carbonate can also be reduced under high heat to calcium oxide (also known as "lime"), which has many applications including being a primary component of many forms of ________.

4 Its extremely varied and colorful patterns make it a favorite decorative material, and it is often imitated in background patterns for ________, etc.

5 Ground calcium carbonate is used in consumer products such as a ________, in toothpaste, and as an inert filler in pills.

6 Places named after the stone include Marblehead, Ohio; Marble Arch, London; the Sea of Marmara; India's Marble Rocks; and the towns of Marble, Minnesota; Marble, Colorado; and ________.

7 Finely ground marble or calcium carbonate powder is a component in paper, and in consumer products such as toothpaste, plastics, and ________.

8 The temperatures and pressures necessary to form marble usually destroy any ________ and sedimentary textures present in the original rock.

9 The word "marble" derives from the ________ μάρμαρον (mármaron) or μάρμαρος (mármaros), "crystalline rock", "shining stone"[1], perhaps from the verb μαρμαίρω (marmaírō), "to flash, sparkle, gleam".

10 It is used in plastics because it imparts stiffness, impact strength, dimensional stability, and ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Summer Garden in St Petersburg contains a hundred Venetian marble statues that are 300 years old.
  • the Illinois Centennial Monument (pictured) is a marble Doric column built to scale with the columns of the Parthenon.
  • the Waterloo Vase is a massive marble urn, 15 feet (4.6 metres) high and weighing 15 tons (13.6 metric tons), which was commissioned by French leader Napoleon but ultimately became an ornament in the British monarch's Buckingham Palace Gardens.
  • the small herds of marble cows that can be found in several locations around Texas are the work of Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton.
  • to turn an old London fruit market into the New Gallery (pictured) in only three months, Edward Robert Robson's builders encased existing cast-iron columns in marble and topped them with gilded Greek capitals.
  • the Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.
  • the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House (pictured) is Frank Lloyd Wright's only work with marble walls.
  • Singapore's Burmese Buddhist Temple has the largest white marble statue of the Buddha (pictured) outside of Myanmar.
  • the 64-pillared 17th century marble monument Chausath Khamba is a tomb for Mirz Aziz Koka.
  • the art deco Burbank City Hall (pictured), with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby.
  • the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity.
  • Count Orlov's Marble Palace, decorated with 32 shades of Russian marbles, currently houses the largest exhibition of Pop Art in Saint Petersburg.
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