(1) Research is continuing, but it poses the question, do we have here a unique glazed stone item, reminiscent of the glazed steatite of 5th millennium Mesopotamia?(2) Miniature mosaic icons, images in metal, ivory, and steatite , at different scales and levels of skill all survive.(3) In Scandinavia many bowls and cooking vessels have been found carved from soapstone, or steatite , a mineral that is very heat tolerant.(4) Potters at Bristol used steatite or soapstone - the ingredient that gives Worcester porcelain durability and enables it to hold hot liquids without cracking.(5) In addition to the mosaic icons, this gallery held a small number of works of steatite and precious stone that were used for private devotions or for personal adornment.(6) It includes vast deposits of coal, limestone, slabs, oil and natural gas, manganese, asbestos, iron ore, gold, diamonds, graphite, tungsten, steatitic , feldspar, and silica.(7) These sequences are immediately unerlain by steatitic ultramafics.(8) Three recipe types are recognised namely, hard-paste Si-Al-Ca, phosphatic, and high-magnesium ( steatitic ) bodies.(9) A high polish being given this plate by means of a steatitic calcareous stone, the fine surface is then iodized by being placed over a vessel containing iodine, until the whole assumes a tint of pale yellow.(10) The raw material source is a steatitic talc, also called soapstone, which originates from the thermal metamorphism of siliceous dolomitic rocks.
