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sandstone

any of a group of common sedimentary rocks consisting of sand grains consolidated with such materials as quartz, haematite, and clay minerals: used widely in building
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sandstone

Sedimentary rock that is composed of sand-sized grains naturally cemented by mineral materials. See also: Stone
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sandstone

[′san‚stōn]
(petrology)
A detrital sedimentary rock consisting of individual grains of sand-size particles 0.06 to 2 millimeters in diameter either set in a fine-grained matrix (silt or clay) or bonded by chemical cement.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

sandstone

Sedimentary rock composed of sand-sized grains, naturally cemented by mineral materials. In most sandstone used for building, quartz grains predominate; often used for decorative elements in buildings because it is easy to carve.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Sandstone

 

a sedimentary rock composed of sand grains cemented by clay, carbonate, siliceous, or other material. Like sand, sandstones are divided into small-grain (0.1–0.25 mm), medium-grain (0.25–0.5 mm), and large-grain (0.5 mm) varieties according to the predominant particle size. They are also divided mineralogically into monomineral and polymineral quartz sandstones, arkosic sandstones, and graywackes.

The density of sandstone is 2,250–2,670 kg per cu m; its porosity is 0.69–6.70 percent, and its water absorption, 0.63–6.0 percent. Sandstone with siliceous and carbonate cementing material has the best physicomechanical properties, and sandstone with clay cement, the poorest. The refractoriness of sandstone also differs, with the greatest heat resistance (up to 1,700°C) characteristic for pure quartz sandstone with siliceous cement. Sandstone is used in construction as wall and facing material and in rubble work. It is also used to make gravel for road building and concrete-making. Quartz sandstone with a SiO2 content of more than 95 percent is used in the production of Dinas brick, as a flux in smelting copper and nickel, and in manufacturing glass.

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