gypsum

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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

Additionally, the basin was filled with layers of salt and gypsum.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 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 sat on the bed with his back against the whitewashed wall and watched tiny crystals in the gypsum plaster as they glittered in the stream of sun from the window.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko