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Alabaster:

Varietal name applied to two different minerals. One, Oriental alabaster, was extensively used by the ancient Egyptians. It is a variety of calcite and it is usually white and translucent, but is often banded with dark or colored streaks. The other mineral, true alabaster, is a variety of gypsum, usually snow-white in color with a uniform, fine grain.

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Alabaster, varietal name applied to two different minerals. One, Oriental alabaster, was extensively used by the ancient Egyptians. It is a variety...

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- type of gypsum: a white or transparent form of gypsum.
- type of calcite: a hard semitranslucent type of calcite, occasionally with banding
- of alabaster: made of alabaster
- white: white and translucent like alabaster

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