Gypsum is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GYPSUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• hydrated calcium sulphate, a soft mineral used for making plaster of Paris and as a fertilizer
• a soft white or grey mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. It occurs chiefly in sedimentary deposits and is used to make plaster of Paris and fertilizers, and in the building industry.
• chalklike mineral
• A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.
• a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a mineral

Words related to GYPSUM

gypseous14 gypsiferous20 gypsums15 plasterstone14

Words that contain GYPSUM

gypsums15

How to use GYPSUM in a sentence

• Shallow pools of brine, varying from one to three miles in diameter, with low-wooded and high bare granite islets, were scattered over this vast area of white mud gypsum and salt.
• In several places we observed beds of gypsum and fossil shells with other strong indications of the existence of coal in the vicinity.
• I found masses of gypsum and small veins of calcareous spar imbedded in the sandstone rock of the point of Grand Sable.
• Salt springs exist in almost every township, accompanied, in one or two cases, by large beds of gypsum.
• The difficulty of boiling them soft arises from an excess of gypsum imbibed during their growth.
• I had discovered that the crystals of salt in our grotto had a bed of gypsum for their base, from which I hoped to obtain a great advantage.
• I was fortunate enough to discover, behind a projecting rock, a natural passage leading to our store-room, strewed with fragments of gypsum.
• My intention was, to form our partition-walls of square stones, cemented with the gypsum.
• Gypsum or land plaster is often sprinkled on stable floors and about manure heaps to prevent the loss of ammonia.
• Sir George satisfied himself that it contained gypsum, such as belongs to the fertile parts of Egypt.
• Gypsum is the first material to be so thrown down, because it is less soluble than common salt, and therefore sooner got rid of.
• Hence all the world over, wherever we come upon a bed of rock salt, it almost invariably lies upon a floor of solid gypsum.
• The waters of the Dead Sea are thus in the condition of having already deposited almost all their gypsum, as well as the greater part of the salt they originally contained.
• Gypsum or land plaster has been often used to correct this condition, and frequently with excellent results.
• Some Eastern growers also apply more or less gypsum.
• Another feature that adds to the effect of neatness and finish in this village is the frequent use of a whitewash of gypsum on the outer face of the walls.
• The whole structure is bound together and smoothed over with mud plastering, and is finally finished with the gypsum wash, applied also to the rest of the room.
• Elevated openings of this kind are closed in the usual manner with a rude, single-paneled door, which is often whitened with a coating of clayey gypsum.
• On the south-west side of the site there came to light a spacious paved court, opening before walls faced with huge blocks of gypsum.
• And so the fortifications of their capital and palace were not of the huge gypsum blocks which they knew so well how to handle and work.
• Immediately in face of the opening a square niche breaks the wall behind the dais, and here stand the broken fragments of a gypsum throne.
• Gypsum, or plaster, is sown quite freely on the clover in the spring.
• The most striking result is the effect of the gypsum.
• Beds of clays, varying in quality and colour, are to be met with on sandy margins, containing particles of gypsum.
• This arises from the intimate connection which is here to be perceived between agate and gypsum.
• The existence of adjoining beds of limestone, gypsum, etc.
• The quantity of gypsum, bone-earth, and magnesia, available as food for plants, varies in an equal degree.
• There is no doubt that the manure which contains the largest proportion of alkaline carbonate, magnesia, lime and gypsum, is that best adapted for tobacco.

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