calcium sulphate

1. 1.

   a white salt (CaSO4)

   Synonymscalcium sulfate

   Broadersalt

   Narrowergypsumplaster of Paris

Questions about calcium sulphate

What does calcium sulphate mean?

calcium sulphate means "a white salt (CaSO4)".

What is another word for calcium sulphate?

Close synonyms include calcium sulfate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calcium sulphate a common word?

calcium sulphate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.