gypsum

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These included gypsum, carbonates, basalts, dunite, and anorthosite.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

For the rest of the building is disappointingly lackluster—boxy white galleries and corridors in “painted gypsum board,” i.e., sheetrock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The best remedy for high pH, Wallace said, is to add gypsum to your soil and avoid things that can make the soil more alkaline, such as crushed concrete.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

It is a mineral used to make types of plaster which coat our homes, schools and offices - and in Cumbria sits the world's deepest gypsum mine.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025

He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom mixed it with water to make Venus de Milo sculptures from a rubber cast she ordered through the mail.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls