A soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments.
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Examples for "soapstone "
Examples for "soapstone "
1 A moment later Accomplice returned with a tray and a soapstone lamp.
2 It was just a piece of soapstone , shaped something like a clamshell.
3 They can easily be warmed with a hot-water bag, flat-iron, or soapstone .
4 Dogs growing uneasy as we work, and seem to hate this soapstone .
5 She was looking for the soapstone basket that held the amplimet.
1 Brother Kmoch went up the mountain, and brought some fine specimens of steatite .
2 The other minerals so common are the varieties of steatite .
3 An hour-glass shaped tube made of gray hydro-mica schist, which resembles very compact steatite .
4 Pipe of gray, indurated steatite , of modern Cherokee manufacture.
5 He figures one from Isle of Wight County, Va., "made of compact steatite . "
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