The color of Marble is generally in the light shades. Pure Marble will be white in color and Marble with impurities like clay and iron oxides will have pink, blue, yellow and black shades. High purity Marble of bright white shade is crushed and refined into a fine powder and all the impurities are almost removed. This process is known as Whiting.
As the Marble's formula is Calcium carbonate, it will react with acids, thereby neutralizing them. Marble is one of the most effective acid neutralizing agents.
As the Marble has Calcite, on the scale of Mohs hardness scale, it ranges at the number It can be easily carved and its translucent property is also taken advantage of. Marble has high solubility and low hardness.
Marble can be polished with great efficiency giving it a fine luster. It has a good ability to accept polish positively.
Several Marbles also contain silicates of lime and magnesia while Diopside is common as pale green color or white.
The accessory minerals include actinolite and tremolite.
The texture of Marble is granular or granoblastic.