The gleaming gypsum sand at White Sands National Monument covers 275 miles, making it the largest gypsum dunefield in the world.
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They, too, are white, because they are also made of gypsum.
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But the gypsum in question includes crystals more than 20cm long.
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The frame is then filled with a special type of gypsum.
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DOJ's statement in the Kaiser Gypsum case preaches the tort reform gospel.
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"Fuck," he says, drawing out the "u" then spits on the gypsum.
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So the gypsum business in Garbutt ain't what it used to be.
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CertainTeed Gypsum Canada did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Gypsum forms down at the bottoms of lakes during droughts or dry conditions.
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Other lakes in Australia that have, for example, gypsum salt, don't turn pink.
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L&W Supply distributes gypsum wallboard and other building materials in the United States.
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A lab test found that the "statue was comprised of gypsum," the report said.
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Dispersed among the glazed ceramic are 3D-printed tiles with ink embedded in gypsum.
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Blue Diamond was once primarily a company town, housing workers from the nearby gypsum mine.
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There's just one problem: It is built on soft gypsum rock, which is constantly eroding.
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Meanwhile, shades of brown and purple show the presence of minerals, including salt and gypsum.
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White Sands is a natural wonder, featuring miles and miles of white gypsum sand dunes.
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Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too.
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A large design plan is mapped out in pencil, then transferred to the gypsum with charcoal.
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The key to unlocking all of these figures is a mineral in the lake sediment called gypsum.
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Gypsum is a form of calcium sulphate created by the evaporation of water laden with that substance.
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The White Sands National Monument in New Mexico is the largest gypsum dune field in the world.
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The result, clinker, is mixed with gypsum and ground to make cement, a basic ingredient of concrete.
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After phosphate is separated from the gypsum, it is stacked dark blue and jagged in the first light.
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On this particular morning, he's checking in at the Haram's most hidden artistic treasure: its gypsum-window workshop.
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His students created the green foam and gypsum "Goddess of Democracy" that became the protest's symbol for freedom.
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During drought conditions, lighter water isotopes evaporate first, and the heavier isotopes are left to be trapped in gypsum.
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It could even tell us about the climate histories of other planets: Mars, for instance, also has gypsum deposits.
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It's going to go up more than it already has because it's the registered trademark of, yes, U.S. gypsum.
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That included the discovery of white veins of the mineral gypsum, an indication of water moving through underground fractures.
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In its natural state, gypsum is a mineral compound used as the main ingredient in different types of plaster.
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Gypsum, which can create bulbous, cauliflowerlike forms, transforms into sulfur, and then into a sulfur variant known as rosickyite.
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Desert whirlwinds aren't supposed to be strong enough to carry anything as large as these gravel-size gypsum crystals.
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The Justice Department seems to be anticipating a challenge to its standing to get involved in the Kaiser Gypsum bankruptcy.
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She uses a "controlled dripping" to layer paint mixed with polymer gypsum, around which gaps and absences branch and pool.
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Gypsum, used to make drywall, is being newly imported from Iran, said a construction manager who declined to be named.
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A: The dam was built in 1984 on a bed of gypsum, a soft mineral that dissolves easily in water.
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Recently in Mexico, scientists woke up microbes that were dormant for as long as 50,000 years in giant gypsum crystals.
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The falcon, which is made of cast polymer gypsum and fiberglass, with additional metal, foam, and metal leaf, is riveting.
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Paul Bertone We started to work on like a third-person fantasy action game, like a beat-em-up, codenamed "Gypsum".
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The White Sands National Monument is the world's largest gypsum sand dune field, encompassing 275 square miles of glistening white sands.
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For the devils of Salar de Gorbea to be transporting large gypsum crystals they must be far more powerful than that.
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I request some ammonium carbonate, I request more fill dirt or more gypsum, but it just gets added to the list.
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Four white masks were designed based on themes of spirituality using a Projet 660 Pro 3D Printer, which uses gypsum powder.
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Visitors could enter a large-scale open-air pavilion built from carved gypsum panels that echoed both Egyptian and Modernist structures.
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The Eagle County Sheriff's Office said the victims were Dillon Block, 28, and Cesar Almanza-Hernandez, 30, both of Gypsum, Colorado.
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The hallway is bounded on one side by the main staircase, and leads into a great room trimmed in gypsum wood.
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The surveys revealed a multilayer foundation of anhydrite, marl, and limestone, all interspersed with gypsum—which dissolves in contact with water.
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The water travelling around the dam, known as "seepage," is normal in limited amounts, but the gypsum makes it potentially catastrophic.
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It evaporates in the sun, leaving behind gypsum crystals as big as your feet that protrude from the ground like daggers.
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The dry lake bed is composed of minerals — including gypsum, potassium chloride (potash) and an abundance of sodium chloride (table salt).
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Dr Benison knew that gypsum crystals of the size found in Salar de Gorbea's dunes form in ponds 5km from those dunes.
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The four men were among 29 miners caught when a cavernous gypsum mine in Pingyi County, Shandong Province, collapsed on Dec. 25.
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The dry bulker Bonita carried a cargo of gypsum, a mineral commonly used as fertiliser, which was destined for Benin, Ugland said.
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The dry bulker Bonita carried a cargo of gypsum, a mineral commonly used as fertiliser, which was destined for Benin, Ugland said.
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New entries this year include dealers as far-flung as Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art of New York and Gypsum of Cairo.
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The Elbphilharmonie's larger hall is clad with thousands of grooved gypsum-fiber panels, the profile of each precisely calculated to optimize resonance.
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The interior is clad with 10,000 distressed gypsum panels, each individually computer-designed both to diffuse the sound and to keep it rich.
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Light fibreglass or heavy plaster (gypsum), white or colored, the immobilization angle, walking cast heels, slings, crutches, wheelchairs, accompanying clothing... You name it.
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The artists will be creating hand-cast individual sculptures from white gypsum cement as they work their way through Pi's near-boundless digits.
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The artists' canvases and ceramics employed everything from macerated paper pulp to digitally printed gypsum tiles, often yielding abstractions of startling visual joy.
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In ancient Babylon…"), with stops along the way for century-old trade disputes ("If it was made of gypsum, it was for plasterers.
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Using a color jet printer, 250D data, and gypsum (a chalk-like mineral), MirrorMe2000D can deliver models in as early as a week.
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The new government banned imports of coal and gypsum in November to boost its mining sector, saying it had abundant reserves of the minerals.
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Second, gypsum dissolves in water (this is, indeed, the reason dunes made of it are rare, for most deserts have at least some rainfall).
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In the 16th century European guesses about porcelain's composition ranged from alabaster—a form of the mineral gypsum—to crushed shells buried for centuries.
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The brine then evaporates from the lakes, leaving behind mineral salts like sodium chloride (rock salt), potassium (potash), bromine, halite, gypsum, and magnesium chloride.
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The company reported a 6.8 percent decline in its 2017 operating profit, hurt by higher costs of raw materials such as gypsum and steel.
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CreditCreditChristopher Smith for The New York Times Justin Knopf finished harvesting soybeans as November's first snowflakes started falling on his fields in Gypsum, Kan.
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Here, the gypsum mixture is soft enough to be carved by sharp hand tools but sturdy enough to bear the weight of the glass.
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Two bankruptcy experts told CNN the Boy Scouts case is somewhat closer to asbestos-related bankruptcies, such as for US Gypsum or Owens Corning.
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The newest national park earned its place this week, and if the majestic white gypsum sand dunes are any indication, it deserves the designation.
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There is no evidence, of course, that anyone has defrauded a Kaiser Gypsum asbestos trust - for the simple reason that the trust doesn't yet exist.
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From there we take the mold, usually an epoxy resin or gypsum, from which we obtain the positive in platinum silicone reinforced usually with fiberglass.
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At least 1 dead; 13 others missing Twenty-nine people were working in the gypsum mine on December 25 when it collapsed, CCTV has reported.
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Finally, they made a mold of the head from which the displayed face was cast in Jesmonite — essentially a mixture of gypsum and acrylic resin.
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It may also reveal signs of extreme whirlwinds of the past if ancient gypsum deposits have a similar composition to these fresher ones in Chile.
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"Our method could be used to analyze gypsum either onboard a rover vehicle, or eventually on Earth from a sample return mission," Gázquez-Sánchez told Gizmodo.
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The White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, for example, is so called because the ingredients of its dunes are sand-grain-sized crystals of gypsum.
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He also makes small sculptures that can sit on a table, and, in addition to gypsum and bronze, he has made works with sheets of plywood.
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Moments later, eight men in blue overalls walk into a factory and begin shoveling a mound of gypsum into a drying machine to make wall plaster.
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Moments later, eight men in blue overalls walk into a factory and begin shovelling a mound of gypsum into a drying machine to make wall plaster.
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The pieces were cast from hydrostone, a type of gypsum cement; some were mixed with black pigment, some with terra-cotta, and most left naturally white.
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Either way, the moondust layers are subjected to temperatures reaching 1,000℃, which melts them into a solid brick structure with a compressive strength comparable to gypsum.
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USG – The building materials company remains on watch after rejecting a $42 per share takeover bid from German gypsum producer Knauf, saying it undervalues the company.
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Mr. Gullickson of Successful Farming, who usually writes about topics like pigweed, gypsum and runoff, has started to push the envelope on debates over climate change.
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In the trailer we construct our optimistic message for the director while we watch the screen display overhead images of the hole growing past its gypsum barriers.
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White Sands is an exception to the rule, with a climate so dry that the gypsum has spread over 275 square miles to create beautiful white dunes.
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After the split, Eagle's heavy materials business will operate as a cement company, and the light materials business will continue to make gypsum wallboard and recycled paperboard.
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The legs were spindly metal and they went through the drywall easy enough, and the biggest chunk of gypsum came off when he pulled it back out.
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One group of physicists proposes hunting for signs of it in ancient minerals, such as olivine or gypsum, that formed in the Earth's mantle or in seawater.
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Rescuers pulled the miners one by one from the collapsed gypsum mine in eastern China's Pingyi County, with video showing the cable lifting them by a harness.
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But a scattered few — enough to break up the pattern of the others without quite forming a pattern of their own — are gypsum printed with found photographs.
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"We work on different kinds of gypsum windows, like this one," Hallak says as we wedge ourselves into the small studio space, filled with iron support rods.
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The work is one of three carved gypsum slabs sold to an American missionary, who gave them to the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1859.
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Because the water was eating away at the gypsum base under the dam, Iraqi teams drilled holes in that foundation and filled them with a cement grout mixture.
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The dam, near the northern city of Mosul, was built in the 1980s on a friable gypsum layer on the Tigris and needs constant repairs to avoid disaster.
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For another recent project, it constructed a 20-foot-long, 1-foot-high imaginary cityscape complete with pastel-colored gypsum structures and a miniature mountain cast in soil.
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Opportunity (and Spirit) made some stunning discoveries, including the presence of gypsum, which is formed from mineral-rich water and suggests Mars's surface once had much more water.
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In one scene, an actress performs oral sex on a dildo attached to a gypsum statue of the (Polish) Pope John Paul II under the banner "defender of paedophiles".
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Sensors installed by American army engineers in December show widening fissures in the fragile gypsum base underneath the dam, though no one can predict when a breach might occur.
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Carved from limestone and colored with a layer of gypsum plaster, the life-sized bust was rendered with exquisite precision: high cheekbones, distinguished nose, and one rock crystal eye.
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In the profound intimacy of this exhibition, celebrating the five year anniversary of the Gypsum Gallery in Garden City, it seems Magdy and his father are hijacking the future.
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But the DOJ statement in the Kaiser Gypsum bankruptcy was signed by Justice Department lawyers in Washington and Charlotte, North Carolina, not by the U.S. trustee assigned to the case.
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Thickened and hardened white gypsum cement describes the simultaneity of sensation experienced from both sides of the skin, inside and out, where awareness arises from the accumulation of incremental fingerings.
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They work methodically, with bright spotlights shining through the colored windows, and then mix a thinner gypsum, painted to fix the glass shards to the exterior side of the window.
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Once cooled, the clinker is ground with gypsum, limestone and other additives into the fine gray powder known as portland cement, which is the most widely used type of cement.
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In a series of court filings, Taishan Gypsum Co Ltd on Friday accused plaintiffs of abandoning its arguments for more than $1 billion in class relief for the alleged property damage.
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Separately, officials in Kansas were still searching for an 11-year-old boy who was swept away by Wichita's fast-moving Gypsum Creek on Friday night, according to NBC station KSNW.
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At the heart of the problem is a major engineering challenge: reinforcing a massive dam built during the Saddam Hussein era on a weak foundation of gypsum, chalky limestone and clay.
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"Just wanted to help," Chief Brian James of the Sherman County Rural Fire Department, in northwest Kansas, said after putting out a flare-up on Saturday morning near a gypsum quarry.
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The Old City is dominated by two hues - that of the baked mud bricks and of the lighter gypsum used for the houses' ornate arched window frames and external geometric decorations.
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Her father, a World War I veteran and a salesman for the United States Gypsum Corporation, came from a Democratic family; his father had been a friend of William Jennings Bryan.
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The duties were provisionally imposed by the Canadian Border Services Agency last September after CertainTeed Gypsum Canada Inc, a unit of French construction firm Compagnie de Saint Gobain PA, complained about dumping.
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Photograph by Victor J. Blue for The New Yorker Theoretically, it's possible that all the voids underneath the Mosul Dam could be filled—that all the gypsum could be replaced with grout.
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The ship, named the MV Bonita, was anchored and awaiting berth at the Cotonou port to discharge a shipment of gypsum when the pirates boarded, J.J. Ugland said in a statement Sunday.
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The Justice Department said it is registering its concern now, rather than waiting to object to an approved plan of reorganization, to give Kaiser Gypsum and asbestos plaintiffs time to address DOJ's points.
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But she and her boyfriend, who grooms the slopes at night, could not afford anything near Vail, so they settled for the winter in an unheated basement in Gypsum, about 40 miles away.
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They include a fragmentary white ceremonial weapon made from gypsum, a white marble pendant in the form of a seated four-legged animal, and a white quartz seal engraved with a seated sphinx.
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Ms. Morrison said Housing Authority workers used gypsum board to cover a portion of her bedroom wall, close to where Saheed had slept in a crib for the first years of his life.
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In addition to materials like lumber, steel and aluminum, the United States will impose tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports next week, including countertops, furniture and gypsum, a key ingredient in drywall.
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According to former Iraqi officials who worked on the project, successive teams of geologists reached the same conclusion: no matter where they looked, the prevalence of gypsum would make maintaining a dam difficult.
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The proposed settlement with Chinese company Taishan Gypsum Company Ltd and related entities was detailed in filing in federal court in New Orleans, where lawsuits against Chinese drywall manufacturers have been consolidated since 2009.
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Despite being rich in natural resources, including iron ore, gold, copper, gypsum, the country is among the region's poorest, with half the population still agriculture or livestock dependent, according to the CIA World Factbook.
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The northern half is another story: an industrial expanse that includes Con Edison switchyards, a gypsum manufacturing facility and Entergy's Indian Point Energy Center, with its domed nuclear reactors set on 240 riverfront acres.
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At last fall's London Design Fair, she presented pastel-colored totems made of Jesmonite — a composite substance made from gypsum powder and acrylic resin — and five species of lichen embedded directly onto their surfaces.
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"For example, the spot on the Yucatan peninsula where the Chicxulub impact occurred happened to have large salt and gypsum deposits, which released huge amounts of sulfur into the atmosphere, creating terrible acid rains."
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Some then pass over the ponds where the gypsum crystals are growing, pluck crystals out of those ponds, carry them the 5km to the dunes, and then dissipate, dropping their loads on the accumulating heaps.
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Nasrat Adamo, a former senior official at the Iraqi Ministry of Irrigation, told me that a consortium of Swiss firms hired to oversee the process assured government officials that the gypsum problem could be managed.
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But Dr. Benison, who found living algae and bacteria inside the crystals in Chile, is also interested in extreme life and how it can be preserved for thousands of years and transported via gypsum crystals.
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Like the first, it concluded that sections of the dam were moving unevenly, that water was passing through the foundation rapidly, and that water downstream contained high concentrations of dissolved gypsum—evidence of large voids.
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In Moscow, unable to find a job, he had obtained a license to sell "fine art," and, applying a lenient definition of the term, cast zodiac pendants out of gypsum for sale at weekend markets.
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When he was drafted in 1973, Mr. Padilla was working at a gypsum mine in El Volcán, in Cajón del Maipo, spending weekends with his grandmother and dating a young woman who worked at the company cafeteria.
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The firm, which has a manufacturing presence in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, completed the purchase of German holding company of fiber gypsum board maker Fermacell GmbH from Xella International SA in April.
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When phosphate is refined, it not only creates this gypsum, but also trace amounts of radium and uranium, both of which are present after sulfuric acid is used to separate the materials we want for fertilizer and feed.
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Instead of applying brushstrokes to canvas or wood panels, she orchestrates drips, spindly strands, and other mostly thin shapes made of various materials ( along with polymer gypsum, she has used fiberglass, steel, gold leaf, copper leaf, and pigment).
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Image: Giles Hamm The excavation offered some fascinating clues as to the lifestyle of these hardy pioneers, including the earliest known use of red ochre and gypsum pigments, bone tools, and hafted tools in this part of the world.
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Gebr Knauf disclosed on Monday it had offered to buy the maker of gypsum wallboards earlier this month for $42 per share, a premium of 25 percent to the stock's Friday closing, valuing the company at about $6 billion.
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N said it would sell its distribution unit, L&W Supply Corp, to roofing supplier ABC Supply Co Inc for $670 million, as the company looks to cut debt and focus on its high-return gypsum and ceiling businesses.
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On March 2, Iraq signed a $20143 million contract with Italy's Trevi Group to reinforce the dam in northern Iraq, which has needed that work since it was built in the early 1980s on veins of water-soluble gypsum.
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And like a new parent I had no idea what to do when things went wrong, even when the things that went wrong were minor, like some peeling of the gypsum board paper on a wall we wanted to repaint.
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Often identified with domestic objects and exquisite crafts, glass is actually nature-based to the extreme, involving sand (created through erosion over hundreds of millions of years), gypsum, intense heat, cooling, and air, especially in terms of breath and lung power.
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Because of the high proportion of gypsum in the area, the construction included a grouting tunnel to allow almost constant injection of cement and drilling mud into crevices in the base that are widened by the water flowing through them.
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Using a signature process that she describes as "a blend of fresco and tapestry," Ms. Al-Hadid painted her interpretations of these figures, which dissolve into drippy abstracted landscapes, using wet polymer gypsum tinted with pigment on her studio wall.
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Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: USG – Germany's Knauf, a rival gypsum maker, has put forth a non-binding offer to buy USG for $42 per share, according to a filing by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
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Gebr Knauf disclosed on Monday that it had offered to buy the maker of gypsum wallboards earlier this month for $42 per share, a premium of 25 percent to the stock's Friday closing, valuing the company at about $6 billion.
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Lauren Halsey's "Crenshaw District Hieroglyph Project" features 600 white gypsum boards onto the surface of which the artist has carved images of Afro-Futurist utopia, signs and scenes from her South Los Angeles neighborhood, and the names of African Americans killed by police.
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The Wichita Fire Department battalion chief, Scott Brown, was quoted in local news media as saying that rescuers planned to continue searching this week for an 11-year-old boy swept away on Friday by high, fast-moving waters in Gypsum Creek.
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There were hundred-mile views of the park's "greatest hits" in every direction: We could see the gypsum dunes shimmering on the desert floor, the 45,000-acre relict forest just behind us, El Capitan's noble profile and, rising above it all, Guadalupe Peak.
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For example, the researchers suggest that the brine could be used to irrigate plants that are tolerant of salt water, or generate electricity, or it could be mined for a variety of minerals and metals such as magnesium, gypsum, calcium, lithium, potassium and even uranium.
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Canadian construction firms have said tariffs on U.S drywall make it more expensive to build homes out of the material, also known as gypsum board, and are hampering recovery efforts in the Alberta town of Fort McMurray which was ravaged by a fire last year.
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The Transnordestina was designed to carry commodities like soy, corn, iron ore and gypsum from the remote northern state of Piaui north to the port of Pecem and east to the port of Suape, and from there be shipped to China, Brazil's main export market.
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Canadian construction firms have said tariffs on U.S drywall make it more expensive to build homes out of the material, also known as gypsum board, and are slowing recovery efforts in the Alberta town of Fort McMurray, which was ravaged by a wildfire in 2016.
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Sand on ocean beaches usually includes a high proportion of shell pieces and, increasingly, bits of decomposing plastic trash; Hawaii's famous black sand is weathered fragments of volcanic glass; the sand in the dunes at White Sands National Monument, in New Mexico, is mainly gypsum.
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When the gypsum dries, the result is a slightly bumpy flat surface that looks nothing like the other side — it's a bit messier and a bit richer in color due to the fact that there are no angled protruding lines — but it's no less beautiful.
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The seven fiberglass-reinforced gypsum cement sculptures composing Nathaniel Robinson's "No One's Things," one of two excellent solo shows running concurrently at Magenta Plains, capture the minute buckles and crinkles of crushed paper cups, an umbrella canopy, and a miniature blue tent with astonishing fidelity.
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As worries about the dam mounted, the Obama administration formed an interagency team and installed 92 instruments to measure, among other things, the pressure on the dam and the sediment in the water nearby — one way of assessing the rate at which the gypsum base was disintegrating.
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Ancient minerals present a new opportunity to expand the search using billion-year-old paleo-detectors—things like olivine, a greenish mineral formed from crystallized magma, and gypsum, a soft mineral that forms from evaporated water— that might retain evidence of interactions with passing dark matter particles.
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"The imposition of provisional duties or duties applicable to gypsum board imported from the United States .. in its full amount, is contrary to Canada's economic, trade or commercial interests," the CITT, which operates in Canada's trade remedy system and reports to parliament, said in a statement.
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Here's what Becker had to say about it: Listen to the premiere of Goon's "Chaka" below, and check out the band's free residency all month long at the Echo in LA, including a record release show October 30 with Alyeska, Gypsum, and HOTT MT (costumes encouraged).
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An hour from the city center, in the middle of the desert and only accessible by four-wheel drive, is Richard Serra's "East-West/West-East," four upright steel plates spaced across a kilometer of sand and gypsum rock like the ruins of some mysterious civilization.
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There, through September 15, Summer Studio offers visitors intimate access, in the house's various rooms, to works by such artists as Mike Goodlett, whose sensuous sculptures made, surprisingly, of concrete and Hydro-Stone (gypsum cement) tease the imagination with bulbous protuberances exuding an air of fecundity and, well, sex.
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Each brief portrait is a stuffed pantechnicon: Gyorgi had worked as a mover until he'd touched a female minor who'd clerked at a gypsum sheather in Paterson, served most of a lenient sentence, and was now confined behind a storage cage to be more findable by his parole officer. . . .
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It takes a while (or at least took me a while) to realize that the white, gray, and gold, seemingly abstract form at the bottom of the oval is another falcon, with attenuated vertical gypsum strips jutting from its back and head, endowing it with a sort of magical energy.
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He has also made public sculpture, most notably the 2100-foot-long bronze "Subway Wall" (21989), installed in the entrance of the subway station at 2100 Wall Street in Manhattan's financial district, and the 230 gypsum curtains of "Curtain Wall" (53) that line a corridor in Terminal 25 of Kennedy International Airport.
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"I thought I could sample the function of the hieroglyph — the pharaohs' record — and remix it into contemporary neighborhood poetics and news to describe this moment for people," said Ms. Halsey, who showed her initial experiments with carving on gypsum panels and painting colorful portraits on columns in 2015 at the Studio Museum.
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Designed after the famous desert rose, which is actually a local desert gypsum crystal that grows in the shape of rose petals, its 76,000 panels are rounded and hoisted like saucers — as if the teacups on the Mad Tea Party ride at Disneyland had spun out of control and clustered into one another.
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Though its tone is almost always calmly descriptive, whatever it describes is always somehow something else and not itself, even when it comes to things like, oh, say, "the fine / loose earth, and the powdered gypsum, / the powdered lime and the unsized stone" — materials that for some other kind of poet might be avatars of irreducible is-ness.
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