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How are gypsum and selenite chemically similar? What makes them different?

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Gypsum and Selenite have the same chemical composition but differ in crystallisation habit. Selenite is usually crystalline and the association of the impurities is superficial which are eliminated by washing. Gypsum is fine grained in nature and is beneficiated by flotation only.

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