soapstone

English

Untreated soapstone.

Etymology

soap +‎ stone

Noun

soapstone (countable and uncountable, plural soapstones)

1. (geology) a soft rock, rich in talc, also containing serpentine and either magnetite, dolomite or calcite

Translations

soft rock

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: стеатитът m (steatitǎt), талкохлорит m (talkohlorit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皂石 (zàoshí)

• Egyptian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vuolukivi (fi), saippuakivi (fi)
• French: stéatite (fr) f
• German: Speckstein m
• Greek: στεατίτης (el) m (steatítis)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Inuktitut: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
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• Kyrgyz: самын таш (samın taş)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: pedra-sabão f
• Russian: мы́льный ка́мень (mýlʹnyj kámenʹ), талькохлори́т (ru) m (talʹkoxlorít), стеати́т (ru) m (steatít), та́льковый ка́мень m (tálʹkovyj kámenʹ), жирови́к (ru) m (žirovík)
• Slovene: steatit m
• Spanish: esteatita f, roca de jabón f
• Swedish: täljsten (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: жировик m (žyrovyk), стеатит m (steatyt)
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Soapstone”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “soapstone”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
• soapstone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

1. (transitive) To scrub with soapstone.

Anagrams

• teaspoons