Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made of or containing talc.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing talc; made up in considerable part of talc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Min.) Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.
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- adjective
talc (attributive)
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Examples
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The underlying rock is trap, and dikes of talcose gneiss.
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It is a kind of nephrite or jade, a mineral which usually occurs in talcose or magnesian rocks.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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They consist of talcose-schiste, bluish-grey limestone, talc in beds, serpentine, black marble similar to the oldest in the Alps, quartz, feldspar, and porphyries.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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That of the Green Eyed Monster -- now thoroughly oxidized as far as penetrated -- forms a sheet from twenty to forty feet in thickness, consisting of ferruginous, sandy, or talcose soft material carrying from twenty to thirty dollars to the ton in gold and silver.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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The manager gave me a small common red flower pot for a muffle, and with the smith's forge (the fire built round with a few blocks of talcose schist) for a furnace, my plant was complete.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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They are micaceous strata; and thus the true cipollino is a mixture of talcose schist with white saccharoidal marble, and may be said to form a transition link between marble and common stone.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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The ore consists of magnetite in a talcose gangue.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The "soapstone ore" is composed of magnetite grains disseminated in a soft talcose matrix.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The country rocks are talcose, micaceous and quartzitic schists and gneisses.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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