Quartz and Quartz Kitchen Countertops

Quartz is one of the hardest materials on earth; it is actually the most abundant mineral in the Earth’s “continental crust” and is the most abundant and common mineral found on the Earth’s surface. It has a hardness of 7 on the ‘Mohs scale’ and comes from the environment of sedimentary and igneous rocks. Quartz crystals are predominantly large and unblemished. There are many types of quartz with many colors and differences, such as rock crystal, which is a transparent and colorless type of quartz, rutilated quartz, which is yellow with a flashing needle shape, and smoky quartz, which is almost black. , dark type of Quartz.

In few places in the world, the basic mineral can be found mixed with other minerals and natural materials such as Calcite, Fluorapatite (mainly in Afghanistan), Ilvaite (in Russia). Quartz is also known by the name silica (representing quartz, opal, and chalcedony).

In 1987, the Caesar Stone Company was established near Caesarea Maritima, the ancient Roman city of Israel. They were the first manufacturers of quartz kitchen slabs, generally distributed as quartz countertops in different models and some other uses. Their surface slabs are made to be easy to transport, craft and build for the fair kitchen.

Quartz is one of the hardest tissues in nature and is the main component of quartz surfaces. Companies like CS caused a major change in the surface market by making a new type of surface with quartz in the mid-1980s. Quartz surfaces were made from almost 93% blend of natural quartz and the addition of resins. raised and tinted polymeric

When it comes to the kitchen, quartz countertop of any kind is rigid and harder than modern granite surfaces, also sometimes more elastic, and resists cracking or breaking.