Use of limestone in the construction of housing has dropped due to much cheaper, faster, and more easily sourced construction products like bricks, blocks, poured concrete, etc.
dolomitic limestone is different from agricultural or hydrated limestone the difference is in the MgO content and hardness Dolomitic Limestone is harder than both and its MgO content is higher. The CaO is lower in Dolomitic limestone and High in the later.
limestone has a white streak.
Marble is made from limestone.
Limestone is a sedimentary rock.
Marble was once Limestone.
limestone, and after the limestone is put in, you get a receptacle called mortar, which is the common combination for houses
The Houses of Parliament are made out of Limestone.
wood and limestone
Brick and Limestone.
acid rain decomposes limestone (calcium carbonate), causing houses and buildings made out of them to become worn
Limestone bricks that weighed more than 1 tonne each.
not easily transpoprtable and hard to find/get
The advantage of living near a limestone quarry is that there are many employment opportunities in the quarry site. The other advantage the building of houses is cheaper because of the easier availability of limestone which is one of the building materials.
Clay or Brick
Because limstone is used so widely all over the world in most things such as toothpaste and houses, the use of limestone is pretty major because is such a poular, natural resource to use and helps with loads of stuff from the building of houses to farming!
i have no idea all i know is that the empire state building is made out of limestone in 1931 & the Houses of parliament in london.
the disadvantages is that making space for houses means cutting down trees this means the natural habibtat is distroyed