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Alabaster is a mineral and a soft rock used for carvings and as a source of plaster powder. Archaeologists, geologists, and the stone industry have different definitions for the word alabaster.
Alabaster is a name applied to varieties of two distinct minerals. Gypsum is a hydrous sulfate of calcium , and calcite is a carbonate of calcium. Gypsum is the alabaster of the present day; calcite is generally the alabaster of the ancients.
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alabaster wikipedia na english version alabaster wikipedia na english subtitles alabaster wikipedia na english translation wikipedia sodium alabaster, fine-grained, massive gypsum that has been used for centuries for statuary, carvings, and other ornaments. It normally is snow-white and translucent but can be artificially dyed; it may be made opaque and similar in appearance to marble by heat treatment.
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Nottingham alabaster is a term used to refer to the English sculpture industry, mostly of relatively small religious carvings, which flourished from the fourteenth century until the early sixteenth century.
Two different mineral substances are called alabaster. The alabaster used by the ancient Greeks and Romans was actually marble, a granular aggregate of crystals of calcium carbonate (see marble). Modern alabaster is a compact form of granular gypsum. Alabaster is white, pink, or yellow. It often has darker streaks, or bands, of color.
A term applied to two types of soft, translucent stone that are similar in appearance but different in composition. The first, known variously as calcite alabaster, Egyptian alabaster, or onyx marble, is a form of calcium carbonate.
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What does the word alabaster mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word alabaster, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. alabaster has developed meanings and uses in subjects including.
