Solid forms of talc are known as steatite or soapstone. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
The rivers, plains, and nearby mountains offered abundant wild animals, fish, and timber, and raw materials such as steatite (talc) and copper. From Wordnik.com. [Birth of a Civilization] Reference
The other minerals so common are the varieties of steatite. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Seals, &c. Scarabs with designs of Egyptian appearance: cylinders, steatite or. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
Brother Kmoch went up the mountain, and brought some fine specimens of steatite. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region] Reference
Round or bean-shaped, pierced for suspension, usually soft stone, e.g. slate or steatite. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
The body is of cast-iron; the cover, funnel, and chimney are of tin; and the burner is of steatite. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference
Another two-flame burner, made of steatite, by J. von Schwarz of Nuremberg, and sold by L. Wiener of. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
The bowl was of soft stone, apparently steatite, which, when fresh, is easily fashioned with a knife. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells] Reference
Alabaster bowls, more than a dozen steatite vessels, and fragments of ostrich eggshell containers were also found. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian Hoard] Reference
The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
L.d. A burner with steatite arms, made by J. von Schwarz of Nuremberg, and sold in this country by L. Wiener of L.ndon, is shown in Fig. 18. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
In order to avoid the expense of the platinum, the same principle was afterwards used in the design of an all-steatite head, which is represented at D in. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
Reported from Pueblo Bonito as a coarse green steatite. From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
(bowl), either of clay or of brown steatite brought from the upper. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
The merchants brought him steatite from Sidon in their painted ships. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
Fragments of steatite vessels which have been from 1 to 2 feet in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510] Reference
Probably every gentleman on this floor knows what steatite or soapstone is. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
Three of them were carved out of steatite, being skillfully cut and polished. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology] Reference
Soapstone wood stoves are made from a type pf metamorphic rock that geologists call steatite. From Wordnik.com. [All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content] Reference
An hour-glass shaped tube made of gray hydro-mica schist, which resembles very compact steatite. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510] Reference
Give us, then, a little more starch and less steatite, more gluten and less glucose or crude glass. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
Among other treasures yielded by the Little Palace was a vessel of black steatite in the shape of a bull's head. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference
Talc (H2Mg3Si4O12) — The foliated form, as distinguished from the massive steatite, is often referred to as talc. From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
The rocks are nearly everywhere a light-colored greenish-gray talcose slate, often with the soapy feel of steatite. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
In one tomb there was found, with undoubted Libyan pottery, a green steatite cylinder of a type known in the Old Kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [El Kab] Reference
The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore, where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar. From Wordnik.com. [The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources] Reference
Inside this were four caskets of steatite (a sacred stone among the Buddhists), each containing small portions of burnt human bone. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference
Carved steatite kettle fragments and broken bannerstones which are also good time markers of the broadspear tradition are also present. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
Los Idolos, eat an earth of which he had himself eaten, without being incommoded by it, and which also was a white and friable steatite. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Serpentine. asbestos and steatite abound in some localities, and excellent granite is found near Raleigh and in the vicinity of Rolesville. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
However, the prices of chromite (43%), barites (6%), fire clay (5%), steatite (4%) and vermiculite (1%). From Wordnik.com. Reference
A dark steatite cylinder, and a little glazed steatite draughtsman with a human head and traces of some sign inscribed below. From Wordnik.com. [El Kab] Reference
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