gypseous

How to use gypseous in a sentence

• Delicate objects in gypseous alabaster can only be safely cleaned with benzol, or with pure oil of turpentine.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• The gypseous variety is also bronzed and hardened in a similar way to that adopted for casts in the latter substance.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• Valuable beds of gypseous marl exist in the vicinity of the Wachita, which admit of being worked to great advantage.

  Norman's New Orleans and Environs | B. M. Norman

• In Cheshire and Lancashire the gypseous and saliferous red shales and loams of the Trias are between 1000 and 1500 feet thick.

  A Manual of Elementary Geology | Charles Lyell.

• But this is the case; we find those fissures filled both with calcareous, gypseous, and pyritous substances.

  Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) | James Hutton