Sentences with phrase «from gypsum»

Trade disputes, hurricanes and rising demand from overseas are all pushing up the price of materials from gypsum wallboard to lumber and steel.
White came from gypsum or diatomaceous earth.

Not exact matches

Unlike traditional drywall, which is made of gypsum, EcoRock is produced from the recycled waste of steel and cement plants.
That vision of better is spelled out in applications for 30 patents across an array of goods — including EcoRock, a gypsum drywall alternative made of recycled waste that cuts manufacturing emissions by 80 percent; and super-energy-efficient windows that reduce emissions from heating and cooling up to 40 percent.
Gypsum is primarily a mining community, and its name draws from the nearby gypsum stone mines.
Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.
In addition to billowing clouds of ash that likely clouded the world, killed plants, and stymied food chains, vaporized gypsum from the impact contributed to toxic sulfur in the atmosphere.
In 2014, Johnson started applying gypsum, obtained from a We Energies facility just 10 kilometers from his farm, to about 4 hectares.
The setup is part of an experiment aimed at testing an unusual water pollution control scheme that uses gypsum, a waste product from coal - fired power plants, to reduce nutrient runoff from farms.
Smoke and dust clouds from Ground Zero carried thousands of tons of caustic dust, as corrosive as drain cleaner, laced with powdered building materials like glass, gypsum, and asbestos.
Water from Syria's greatest engineering project, the Tabqa Dam, dissolved gypsum in the soils it was meant to irrigate, poisoning crops.
There, gypsum crystals form from evaporating volcanic pools of salty, acidic water.
Gypsum is primarily a mining community, and its name draws from the nearby gypsum stone mines.
The buildings, bridges and monuments that now sit on the surface are built from the limestone and gypsum that was excavated from the quarries and tunnels below.
The world's caves hold plenty to explore from fish - filled sinkholes to gypsum - white caverns.
Tekken / Iron Fist Tag Tournament 2 is the most consumer - friendly game that I can imagine (the fact that it comes from 2012 Namco - Bandai is the most shocking business decision of this year), and so it appeals directly to my love of having a bunch of stuff thrown at me and discovering, when sifting through, that there's more silver than gypsum.
Curated by Brussels - based collective Bunk Club, the installation consisted of four new figurative wall reliefs, cast from acrylic - modified gypsum and arranged in a narrative tableaux, reading across the gallery as a life - size frieze.
Reign of Ashurnasirpal II, The King and Genie: Relief from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrod (detail), 883 - 859 BCE, gypsum.
The works of Christoforos Savva (1924 — 1968) Cube (Abstract sculpture)(1962/65), Nikos Kouroussis (b. 1937) Untitled (1970), Angelos Makrides (b. 1942) The Great Greek Encyclopaedia (1972), Aristidis Anastasiadis (1940 - 2014) Positive Space (1992), and Mary Plant (b. 1943) Anthograms (2004 - 2005) are studies of personal and interpersonal topographies embracing diverse materials and ranging from wood, iron, and paper to stone and gypsum.
Technically this room contained various separate sculptures from Has Op de Beeck's recent switch from grey to white for his spookily smooth vanitas realisations, which start from casts and are rendered in gypsum plaster over a wooden armature.
His early works were sculptures made of dough, clay, and gypsum, while later he turned to large - scale works from aluminum, bronze, and steel — always theming the figurative.
Ubiquitous materials of construction, gypsum, plywood and steel mined and extracted from the land are repurposed in a series of 8 foot high sculptures, their span mimicking that of Duane's chest and height with extended arms.
«Assyrian Relief: Winged Spirit of Apkallu» from Kalhu (Nimrud), Iraq; Northwest Palace, Room S, panel 17, ca. 875 — 860 B.C.E., gypsum (Mosul alabaster), Gift of Dr. Henri Byron Haskell, Medical School Class of 1855.
They produce less CO2 and NOX, no ash, and none of the gypsum that comes from scrubbing coal.
Gypsum is primarily a mining community, and its name draws from the nearby gypsum stone mines.
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