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n. A fine-grained white, greenish, or gray mineral, Mg3Si4O10(OH)2, having a soft soapy feel and used in talcum and face powder, as a paper coating, and as a filler for paint and plastics.

v. To apply this substance to (a photographic plate, for example).

n. A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses.

v. To apply talc

n. A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.

n. A magnesian silicate, usually consisting of broad, flat, smooth laminæ or plates, unctuous to the touch, of a shining luster, translucent, and often transparent when in very thin plates.

To treat, or rub with talc: as, in photography, to talc a plate to which it is desired to prevent the adherence of a film.

n. a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder

v. apply talcum powder to (one's body)

"You refer to brown, blue and white asbestos, as well as talc, and refer approvingly of Christopher Booker�s assertion that white asbestos is �is to all intents and purposes indistinguishable from talc� because they are both hydrated magnesium silicates with very similar formulae."

talcked    talcking    talcs   

powder   

oil of talc   

talcum   

talcked    talcking   

steatite    soapstone   

hornblende    kaolin    bentonite    malachite    mica    felspar    seafoam    gypsum    marl    beryl