Granite and Quartzite you can put hot things on, though occasionally the thermal shock will cause it to spall (pop out a small piece) so that is not a good practice - Quartz is a plastic matrix so hot things can melt it, just like with Corian or Formica or Laminate.
By Kennedy Hickman. Definition: Containment was a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War. First laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, Containment stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or it would spread to neighboring countries.irst laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, Containment stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or it would spread to neighboring countries.
Containment, associated with the American diplomat George F. Kennan, was the central post-war concept of the US and its allies in dealing with the Soviet Union.Containment kept the cold war from being a hot war.hat Kennan did, in his famous âLong Telegramâ from Moscow in February 1946 and through a briefly anonymous article in Foreign Affairs in 1947 was to lay out a third path between the extremes of war and appeasementâcontainment. Stalin, he said, is not Hitler. He does not have a fixed timetable for aggression.