what day to day products are made of limestone?

Question

any will do a, chomprehensive list would be much appreciated!
also none day to day items would be useful

Answer 1

I have found several websites that can help you with this (but they are not in order of me using them here). I have listed some of the uses, but how the limestone is used will be found on the below sites, along with lots of others.

This is from what I know:
Buildings (for example the chateaux in France are made from Tuffeau quarried from the caves where wine is made!) The best grapes grow on limestone soil. (I cannot find just one website for this - it was just something I knew - but if you put limestone chateau in a search engine, you can choose one!). Oh, and the Zoo de Doue la Fontaine is set in a limestone quarry - it's a brilliant zoo and we go there every time we are in the Loire! There are also caves (called Troglodyte caves) that are built into the limestone sides of the Loire. There is even a village built underground in the limestone called Rochemenier!

Les Grottes Pétrifiantes (Savonnières) – The "petrifying caves" at Savonnières were once quarries but now are a natural curiosity of stalactites and stalagmites, formed by water reacting with the limestone. In the caves there is also a Gallo-Roman cemetery, reconstruction of prehistoric animal life. there they use the amout of limestone in the water to 'petrify' items, in the same way that you get limescale in your kettle.


Now to what I have found out on websites:
Blackboard chalk is a substance used for drawing on rough surfaces, as it readily crumbles leaving particles that stick loosely to these surfaces. Blackboard chalk, often supplied in sticks about 5 cm long, is currently made from the mineral gypsum (calcium sulfate) rather than calcium carbonate.

In Lawn Tennis, when grass courts are used, chalk is used to mark the boundaries. This gives the advantage that, if the ball hits the line, a cloud of chalk dust can be seen.
In gymnastics, rock-climbing, bouldering and weight-lifting, chalk - usually in the form of magnesium carbonate - is applied to the hands to prevent slippage.

Tailor's chalk traditionally is hard chalk used to make temporary markings on cloth, for instance by tailors. Nowadays it is usually made from talc (magnesium silicate).
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manufacture of lime (CaO)
manufacture of cement
agricultural uses
metallurgical uses (steel making)
crushed stone (construction, aggregate)
used as filler
chemical uses (scrubbing, pollutants, acid neutralizer)
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Few people realise the importance of Calcium Carbonate in their day to day lives. Almost every common household product contains the material in one form or another -- from pills and toothpaste to the adhesive holding up the bathroom tiles; from the tiles on the roof to the carpets on the floor; from the glass in the windows to the jars in the larder.

The calcium carbonate added to the land and to animal feeds finds its way through the food chain to the bones in our bodies. Its properties as a neutraliser and purifier are essential to the conservation of our natural environment, by nurturing agricultural land and maintaining its fertility.

Its benefits are immeasurable: among others, it balances acidity in the soil, improves drainage and aeration to increase crop yields, and purifies sulphur emissions from power stations.The UK Environment Agency has used our limestone to rectify acidity levels in rivers; Longcliffe Quarries sponsored the Three Straths river improvement scheme in Aberdeenshire.
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From all this information, I hope you have enough for your homework as there are common and unusual uses for limestone!

Answer 2

Choose any iron or steel product and you can trace its origins back to the first stage of extracting iron from iron ore.

The Blast Furnace is loaded with alternate layers of iron ore, coke and limestone.

Paving stones, garden ornaments, slaked lime, concrete and a past use in the theatre, Limelight.

The iron man of the West was the Limestone cowboy!

Answer 3

What day to day products are made of limestone?

Answer 4

Depends where you live I guess. In many countries in the Mediterranean...houses and walls etc are built of limestone.

As to other day to day items errrr I can't think of any, I'm afraid.

Answer 5

well limestone is hard, Sandstone is soft, and Shale is Softer. Cement = Hard, Limestone = Hard. a win win. : ]

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Answer 7

garden paving slabs
garden ornamental figures
cement has a lot of limestone in it

Answer 8

Builders sometimes mix lime into thier mortar, i assume lime is crushed limestone ? you can get big bags at builders merchants.

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