Gypsum Definition

jĭpsəm
noun
A very soft, monoclinic mineral, CaSO42H2O, commonly found with other evaporites in sedimentary rock and used to make plaster of Paris and cement; hydrous calcium sulfate.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Gypsum

Noun

Singular:
gypsum
Plural:
gypsums

Origin of Gypsum

  • Middle English gipsum from Latin gypsum from Greek gupsos probably of Semitic origin Arabic jibs, jiṭṭ, jaṭṭ from Akkadian gaṭṭu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gupsos).

    From Wiktionary

Gypsum Sentence Examples

  • Some iron ore, gypsum, salt and limestone are also produced.

  • The occurrence of red deposits in western Australia, Scotland, the Ural mountains, in Michigan, Montana and Nova Scotia, &c., associated in some instances with the formation of gypsum and salt, clearly points to the existence of areas of excessive evaporation, such as are found in land-locked waters in regions where something like desert conditions prevail.

  • In the neighbourhood are deposits of gypsum and salt.

  • The state contains deposits of iron, gypsum, marl, phosphate, lignite, ochre, glass-sand, tripoli, fuller's earth, limestones and sandstones; and there are small gas flows in the Yazoo Delta.

  • Other minerals that have been discovered but have not been industrially developed are gypsum, lignite and cement rock.

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Words Starting With

GGYGYP

Words Ending With

MUMSUM

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