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- noun Plural form of
steatite .
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It [sic] steatites for instance I have specimens of every degree of induration from the hardness of soap to the most compact polished jasper and they illustrate the fact of jaspers being indurated steatites, so clearly and fully that I cannot find in my heart to keep them asunder.
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Like man in a savage state some animals, when pressed by hunger in winter, swallow clay or friable steatites; such are the wolves in the northeast of Europe, the reindeer and, according to the testimony of M. Patrin, the kids in Siberia.
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Like man in a savage state some animals, when pressed by hunger in winter, swallow clay or friable steatites; such are the wolves in the northeast of Europe, the reindeer and, according to the testimony of M. Patrin, the kids in Siberia.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Its component pans arc quartz, in crystallized grains; fchspar, in lamellar, semi-transparent, whitish scu. 's; and steatites.
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But in other parts of the steatites, the sulphur has mineralized the iron, producing sulphure of iron.
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When this granite came out of the furnace, the steatites and the feltspar were blend - ed into one porous scorije, but the quartous grain remained unfused.
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