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Meanings of gypsum in English

Russian
гипс
Portuguese
gipsite
Spanish
yeso
Catalan
algeps
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Mineral, calcium sulfate with bounded water.

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        Usage of gypsum in English
        1
        First, we welcome their recognition of gypsum as a beneficial soil improver.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Building of a children's hospital with a gypsum bird on the roof.
        A writer at war: vasily grossman with the red army
        3
        Cave of the Crystals, Mexico This cave contains gigantic, sword-like gypsum crystals.
        BBC
        4
        Though destitute of metals Aisne furnishes abundance of freestone, gypsum and clay.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        5
        Why, it was bad enough that so much gypsum was spoiled yesterday.
        The Settlers at Home
        6
        A little prospecting would also have shown them iron, coal, and gypsum.
        The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
        7
        It produces synthetic gypsum to replace use of natural gypsum in cement manufacturing.
        Reuters
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        The caverns in mountains of gypsum often contain mephitic emanations and deleterious gases.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        9
        I suspect the gypsum in the subsoil-someas yet undescribed radiations.
        The Research Magnificent
        10
        L&W Supply distributes gypsum wallboard and other building materials in the United States.
        Reuters
        11
        Brick, lathe, gypsum, plywood, plaster, paper, dissolving all along the terrace.
        The water room
        12
        Once he picked a piece of gypsum out of the borax.
        Tales of lonely trails
        13
        Green and red marl, shale, and shaly limestone with some veins of gypsum.
        Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings
        14
        The red sandstone is argillaceous, with compact white gypsum or alabaster, very beautiful.
        The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and Cali...
        15
        When springs rise from rocks containing gypsum they are hard with calcium sulphate.
        The Elements of Geology
        16
        The gypsum is all right, is a body, is provided for.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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