Question: The flooring of the Palmetto Theater has a composite material that consists of chips of what?

 It was built in 1940-1941, and was a one-story, rectangular plan brick building. Palmetto Theater was a historic movie theater located at Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina.  It featured a large marquee and a separate shop storefront decorated in blue Carrera-glass panels.  The interior featured double balconies, Terrazzo flooring, large Art Deco light fixtures, decorative wall painting, and a plaster Art Deco screen surround. <SEP> A fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) is a composite building material that consists of three components: (i) the fibers as the discontinuous or dispersed phase, (ii) the matrix as the continuous phase, and (iii) the fine interphase region, also known as the interface.  This is a type of advanced composite group, which makes use of rice husk, rice hull, and plastic as ingredients.  This technology involves a method of refining, blending, and compounding natural fibers from cellulosic waste streams to form a high-strength fiber composite material in a polymer matrix.  The designated waste or base raw materials used in this instance are those of waste thermoplastics and various categories of cellulosic waste including rice husk and saw dust. <SEP> Mallite is a type of laminate composite material, formerly manufactured by the "William Mallinson & Sons" company.  The material is formed of a core sheet of end grain balsa wood, faced by duralumin sheets.  This construction endows the finished material with greater strength and rigidity than a light alloy sheet of equal mass.  The material was originally developed in the late 1950s for use in the aerospace industry, primarily for use in flooring and internal partitioning in jet airliner construction.  However, it found fame as one of the first engineered composite materials to be employed in the motorsport industry.  Robin Herd, formerly a designer on the Concorde project, used his aerospace knowledge to design the first McLaren single-seater racing cars.  The M2A prototype used Mallite extensively, throughout its construction.  The final production model, the Formula One McLaren M2B of 1966, only used Mallite for its internal skins and lower bodywork; a lack of understanding of the material's properties had led the team to design the car with conventional curved bodywork, creating problems during the fabrication process as the inherently inflexible material would not readily conform to complex, compound curvatures.  With greater understanding of Mallite's properties Herd later used the material to construct the unraced Cosworth four-wheel drive Formula One car of 1969, noted for its slab-sided, angular looks. <SEP>  It consists of chips of marble, quartz, granite, glass, or other suitable material, poured with a cementitious binder (for chemical binding), polymeric (for physical binding), or a combination of both. Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments.  Metal strips divide sections, or changes in color or material in a pattern.  Additional chips may be sprinkled atop the mix before it sets.  After it is cured it is ground and polished smooth or otherwise finished to produce a uniformly textured surface.