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/ˈd͡ʒɪp.səm/ · noun
A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris..
...but he has been able to analyze the matter removed, and to prove it, by chemical evidence, to consist of Prussian blue, and gypsum principally.
Besides being abundant, gypsum is easily refined into a powder for plaster or formed into sheets of wallboard.
Use gypsum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gypsum means A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris..
Common synonyms include plaster-stone.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
...but he has been able to analyze the matter removed, and to prove it, by chemical evidence, to consist of Prussian blue, and gypsum principally.
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