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Alabaster
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01244b.htmThe substance commonly known as alabaster is a fine-grained variety of gypsum. Oriental alabaster, the alabastrites of the classical writers, is a translucent marble obtained from stalagmitic deposits.
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