steatite's Usage Examples:

of water, issuing from a pinhole steatite burner.

To these may be added emery, steatite, barytes, felspar and ochre, in considerable quantities; excellent lithographic stone is obtained at Solenhofen; and gold and silver are still worked, but to an insignificant extent.

Important formations of chromite are found at Hagdale and the Heog Hills; steatite occurs at Kleber Geo, and many interesting minerals have been recorded from these islands.

The steatite vases with reliefs are of great importance.

An inscription ran round one of the steatite vases just below the lid.

It should be compared with stone work in Crete, especially the steatite vases with reliefs found at Hagia Triada.

"An inscription ran round one of the steatite vases just below the lid.

TALC, a mineral which in its compact forms is known as steatite, or soapstone.

); many intaglios in various stones (chiefly in steatite), mostly either spheroidal or gable-shaped, but a few scarabaeoid, conical or cylindrical, bearing sometimes pictographic symbols, sometimes divine, human or animal figures.

These consisted of five vessels, two vases, a bowl and a casket being made of steatite, and the fifth, also a bowl, of crystal.

, ironstone, trap and rocks of basaltic character are common; veins of steatite and white fibrous quartz are also found.

This fault has now been reduced by a cage of steatite round the burner tip, which draws in sufficient air to prevent deposition.