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<p>[QUOTE="clutteredcloset49, post: 2077878, member: 85"]If you mean grainy, it can be, yes.</p><p><br /></p><p>From wiki and I didn't read it all. Appears to be a calcite.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also from wiki "<i>Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate."</i></p><p>So the vinegar interacts with alabaster.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm pretty sure I used vinegar and salt to try and remove stains from a marble table top. It was years ago and I just went to verify that was a method that would have been used. Now all I can find is Don't use vinegar on marble.</p><p>Yet I'm almost positive that's what I used - No bubbling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe [USER=78]@gregsglass[/USER] will know if vinegar interacts with marble.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="clutteredcloset49, post: 2077878, member: 85"]If you mean grainy, it can be, yes. From wiki and I didn't read it all. Appears to be a calcite. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster[/URL] Also from wiki "[I]Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate."[/I] So the vinegar interacts with alabaster. I'm pretty sure I used vinegar and salt to try and remove stains from a marble table top. It was years ago and I just went to verify that was a method that would have been used. Now all I can find is Don't use vinegar on marble. Yet I'm almost positive that's what I used - No bubbling. Maybe [USER=78]@gregsglass[/USER] will know if vinegar interacts with marble.[/QUOTE]
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