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How is calcium sulphate useful?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Calcium Sulphate, CaSO4 is also known as Gypsum or Alabaster.

It is used for making plaster of Paris, dried gypsum and as a filler or glaze in paper making.

Medically, it is used to make splints and casts for fractures.

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