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Alabaster

Oriental alabaster is a substance of a pure, semi-translucent whiteness, occasionally found variegated with undulating veins of yellow, red and brown. softened by sawing it into plates or sheets, The common alabaster, usually met with in and then exposing it to powerful pressure ornaments &c., is made of gypsum (plaster of between hot iron plates. Before pressing, Paris), and prepared so as to imitate the genthe pith has to be removed, and the texture uine. The following receipts are for the softened, first by soaking for some days, and gypsum imitation, and not the real alabaster. then boiling in water.