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Definition of Soap-rock
1. Noun. A soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soap-rock
Literary usage of Soap-rock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting by Lake Superior Mining Institute (1907)
"This material consists chiefly of pieces of soap rock and ore with a matrix ...
The soap rock and the ore exist as angular fragments. As the soap rock was ..."
2. Transactions of the Geological Society of London by Geological Society of London (1811)
"The only analyses of these two rocks which I know, are, that of serpentine by
Kirwan, and of the soap-rock of Cornwall by Klaproth, ..."
3. Transactions of the Geological Society of London by Geological Society of London (1811)
"The only analyses of these two rocks which I know, are, that of >ser- pentine by
Kirwan, and of the soap-rock of Cornwall by Klaproth, ..."
4. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1882)
"The greenstones, quartzites, traps, etc., seem to be absent or in very small
quantities and with little significance, and even the soap-rock and jasper seem ..."
5. Mullyon: Its History, Scenery and Antiquities by Edmund George Harvey (1875)
"The valuable properties of the Soap Rock do not seem to have been fully appreciated,
even if known, until the middle of the i8th century; but after the ..."
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