gypsum

How To Use gypsum In A Sentence

• The majority of the carbonates and gypsum are autogenetic with only minor secondary accumulations with depth.
• If you have gypsum wallboard, avoid pressing too hard or you will cut through its paper facing.
• Uranium, gold, phosphates, tin, coal, limestone, salt and gypsum mining are prominent in Niger.
• The lake contained an area of 3,370 acres and was said to have a practically inexhaustible deposit of salt and gypsum.
• The monster crystals, over six meters long, are made of selenite, a crystalline form of the mineral gypsum (the number one ingredient in blackboard chalk!). Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals
• Examples of this include companies that are extracting the petroleum from discarded plastic bottles and using it to create the polyester fibers that they turn into sportswear, and those producing synthetic gypsum roughly 20 percent of U.S. raw gypsum use from the byproduct of manufacturing and energy-generating processes, primarily from desulfurization of exhaust gases from coal power plants. John Friedman: Three Dimensions of Leadership
• The gypsum board must be attached to the wood furring strips or underlying masonry using nails or screws.
• In addition to oil and gold, he said, the region is believed to have "abundant" deposits of minerals including marble, gypsum and chromite, which is used to make ferrochrome, an ingredient in stainless steel. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
• Like the first, it includes some world-class localities, such as gypsum crystals from Eilsworth and flint from Flint Ridge.
• Quartz is the dominant mineral in veins in siliceous rocks, calcite in limestones, and gypsum in gypsiferous sediments.