Byrd Wrote:
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>
> > And we always come back to the question of
> why.
> > Why would they develope technology that had
> no
> > use?
>
> Polishing granite? They did lots of it. Egypt is
> full of it.
>
> > Sure, a craftsman is always going to make
> > something as fine as possible but what drove
> the
> > culture to work stone like this?
>
> It holds water, it doesn't melt in the rain, it is
> rarer than limestone, its hardness means that not
> everyone can have it, it has pretty sparkly stuff
> in it (I'm not being facetious here; granite has
> pegmatites in it), it's polished finish is much
> nicer looking than limestone's... and so on and so
> forth.
A helluva lot of people seem to think that polished granite is the ideal surface for the kitchen & bathroom countertops. What drives the culture of the early 21st C to want this?
