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Unread 02-06-2009, 09:06 AM
A. E. Stallings A. E. Stallings is offline
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Thanks all so much for this! This forum has amazing resources!

I'm interested in what acid rain does to marble--I realize it turns it to gypsum (sorry about typo--at any rate, gypsos is Greek for plaster)--sort of chalky crumbly white stuff--but wondered if for poetic purposes I could describe that as lime. I have an alternative line if need be, but lime works better poetically, if not scientifically. Still, it is one thing to be vague and another to be inaccurate.
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