Gypsum Powder and Its Manufacturers

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Gypsum Powder and Its Manufacturers
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What is Gypsum Powder?

• Gypsum Powders is a common word for Calcium
  Sulphate Dihydrate/ Hydrous Calcium Sulphate.
  Gypsum stones are heated in order to convert them
  to powder. This gypsum powder is normally a white
  and smooth powder and is used in various
  industries.
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Where are Gypsum Powder put in use?

• Fertilizers Gypsum powder is widely being used
  to make fertilizers. Fertilizers based on Gypsum
  powder helps the hard subsoil or the upper layer
  of soil in the garden to loosen up. Apart from
  it, the Gypsum powder-based fertilizers helps to
  improve the composition of soil, prevents soil
  erosion, water runoff and facilitates water and
  air movement.
• Drywalls Drywalls are always made with gypsum
  powder. This gypsum powder is converted to
  plaster of Paris by evaporating the most of its
  water content and carbon dioxide. This plaster of
  Paris is poured between two thick sheets and made
  flattened and left out in the Sun to dry. This
  will ultimately form the drywall, you want. The
  main features of drywall are that it is fire
  resistant, provides sound insulation, thermal
  resistant and easy to repair.

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• Tofu Gypsum powder plays a vital role in the
  production of Tofu. In fact without the help of
  gypsum powder, Tofu cant be produced. The gypsum
  powder here is uses as a coagulant. In easy word,
  it helps the liquid to thicken up. Gypsum powder
  is added to soy milk and pressed into blocks of
  Tofu. Different types of Tofu like soft tofu,
  rich kinugoshi, sweetened kinugoshi tofu and
  modified kinugoshi can be made using gypsum
  powder.

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What is the Chemical Composition of Gypsum
Powder?

• There are various chemical components that adds
  up to form gypsum powder. The components along
  with their percentage of contribution are listed
  below.
• Calcium 23.28
• Hydrogen 2.34
• Sulphur 18.62
• Oxygen 55.76

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Types of Gypsum Powder

• There are basically two types of Gypsum Powder.
  They are mentioned below.
• Natural Gypsum Powder This naturally occurring
  gypsum powder is basically found in the
  sedimentary rock and is available in over 85
  countries. United States, Canada and Mexico are
  considered to have the largest reserve for
  quality gypsum powder. Around 21 pounds of
  chemically combined water is found in 100 pounds
  of gypsum rock.
• Flue-Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Gypsum Powder
  This is a by-product of desulfurization of flue
  gas that is obtained from the stacks of power
  plants using fossil fuel. The emissions which are
  captured from the smoke stacks can be turned into
  gypsum by purifying it to a hard substance.
  Gypsum Powder manufacturers usually go for this
  FGD gypsum.

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Physical Properties of Gypsum Powder

• The colour of gypsum powder is usually white but
  sometimes it can even be found to be colorless,
  yellowish white, greenish white or brown.
• Gypsum Powder is always translucent. However, you
  can even find it to be transparent at times.
• The density of this powder is 2.3.