plaster of Paris
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The 292 replica bones and ribs which make up the skeleton, made from plaster of Paris, are being packed into 28 crates by staff at the Natural History Museum.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2023
Heritage noticed some residue in the grooves — plaster of Paris, a clue that they had been used in a stereotype printing process developed in the 1830s.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022
"Looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand."
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2022
Beal’s castle was a hallucinatory, improbable cascade of car bumpers, endless Busch beer cans, plaster of Paris archways embedded with abalone shells and dolls, rusted car wheels and driftwood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
“This has plaster of Paris in it,” he tells me as he wraps.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
