A calcium salt that is used for a variety of purposes including:
building materials, as a desiccant, in dentistry as an
impression material,
cast, or die, and in medicine for immobilizing casts and as a tablet excipient.
It exists in various forms and states of hydration. Plaster of Paris is a mixture of
powdered and heat-treated gypsum.
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