soapstone
IPA: sˈoʊpstoʊn
noun
- (geology) A soft rock, rich in talc, also containing serpentine and either magnetite, dolomite or calcite.
- (mineralogy) Synonym of saponite
verb
- (transitive) To scrub with soapstone.
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Examples of "soapstone" in Sentences
- The temple is built of soapstone.
- It is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone.
- The term steatite is sometimes used for soapstone.
- The main occupation is mining soapstone and bauxite.
- Commodities traded included iron, soapstone and perhaps fish.
- Soapstone is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of talc.
- This resulted in improved conditions for the soapstone business.
- The soapstone quarry was depleted and closed late in the 19th century.
- Soapstone Mountain used to be the site of a Soapstone quarry in Colonial days.
- The slick surface of soapstone allows the finished object to be easily removed.
- And the use of the soapstone is a really nice choice for an alternative to plastic.
- This rock is miscalled soapstone, which it resembles in some of its properties and uses.
- It is a shallow crescent-shaped vessel of potstone, or what is called soapstone from its soapy feel.
- If you had paid $40 for a figure marked "soapstone," then found out it was jade, would you give $100 back to the estate sale company?
- These the doctor declared to be formed of the mineral known as soapstone, and pointed out in them specks of gold still adhering to the glaze.
- One carven image of the goddess Sekmet, seated on her throne, two inches high, carved in soapstone, caked with an iron rich clay, oxidized to a deep blood red.
- ~ One carven image of the goddess Sekmet, seated on her throne, two inches high, carved in soapstone, caked with an iron rich clay, oxidized to a deep blood red.
- "Rather so," replied the Captain, "but hardly more so than the two little drinking-cups we carved out of the same kind of soapstone that we made the lamp and pot of."