Assertion: alabaster | /r/HasProperty | translucent
Facets:
value: normally
type: DEGREE
value: on the edges
type: LOCATION
value: quite
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: When cut in thin sheets, alabaster is translucent enough to be used for small windows.[citation needed]
text: It is a translucent stone, usually white, that is used for sculpture and interior decorations.
text: The Oriental alabaster (referred to in the Bible) is a translucent carbonate of lime, formed on the floors of limestone caves by the percolation of water.
text: This stone may be opaque or translucent on the edges.
text: When cut in thin sheets, alabaster is translucent enough to be used for small windows.
text: It normally is snow-white and translucent but can be artificially dyed; it may be made opaque and similar in appearance to marble by heat treatment.
text: Alabaster is translucent and can be polished to a high gloss, making it perfect for architectural features, decorative boxes, vases, bottle, statues, and game pieces.
text: Alabaster can be so translucent that it was used for windowpanes before glass was perfected.
text: Alabaster is also quite translucent, and this, together with its pale appearance, led the Victorians to refer to the favored pale skin as “alabaster”.
text: Alabaster is a smooth fine-grained sedimentary gypsum rock and is generally white or delicately shaded and translucent.