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Material: Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive,
felsic, igneous rock. Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with
some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as
porphyry.
Granites can be pink to dark gray or even black, depending on their chemistry
and mineralogy.
Granite is nearly always massive (lacking internal structures), hard and tough,
and therefore it has gained widespread use as a construction stone. The word
granite comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained
structure of such a crystalline rock.
