Soapstone

(noun.) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments.

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• The earthenware and soapstone stoves of continental Europe were used long before the present century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The artists must have employed lamps to do their work, and shallow soapstone lamps in which fat could have been burnt have been found. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For the purpose soapstone will answer, and the mould, as well as the piece of caoutchouc, should be well brushed or dusted with this substance. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Among other lining materials found suitable were soapstone, alumina, ammonia, copperas, starch, Epsom salts, and gypsum, paper, pulp, and alum, and a mixture of various other materials. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Poor people used oiled paper, isinglass, thinly shaved leather, resembling parchment, and thin sheets of soft pale crystalised stone known as talc, and soapstone. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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