steatite in English

noun
1
the mineral talc occurring in consolidated form, especially as soapstone.
In Scandinavia many bowls and cooking vessels have been found carved from soapstone, or steatite , a mineral that is very heat tolerant.
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1. The Cretan stone that was used at the time included steatite, stalagmite, alabaster, schist, and serpentine.

2. Steatite Ampules,1 also known as Urns orVases,2 were cylindrical enclosures designed by the Engineers to establish and maintain the controlled environment necessary to store Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15, due to its highly unstable nature at standard room temperature.1 The exterior surface of a Steatite Ampule was engraved with an informational placard.1 Within a Steatite Ampule, the A0 …

3. A necklace of steatite beads strung to a copper wire with hooks at both ends, a gold bangle, gold and other beads were also found in one of the hemispherical structures.

4. The inventive seal comprises at least one sealing element (37) inserted into a longitudinal bore (15) of a housing (12) consisting of a mixture of the hexagonal allotrope of boron nitride (BN) and an oxide ceramic component, preferably steatite.

5. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1900) "the modern steatite Batswing, it is used in far

6. Trade of steatite (soapstone), nephrite adzes, and basalt from the interior for dentalium beads and other marine shell objects from the coast, must only represent a limited reflection of a much broader trade in perishables such as dried salmon from the interior and eulachon fish oil from the coast.