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Interior Finish-Out Components
Published in Kathleen Hess-Kosa, Building Materials, 2017
Soapstone, a sedimentary rock, is more subdued than granite and marble. Although resistant to heat, soapstone is readily scratched, yet the scratches can be sanded out. It will darken with age, and it can crack over time. It fits best in “older, cottage-style” designs. Irritant/toxic emissions from soapstone are highly unlikely.
Unified approach for constitutive modelling for geologic materials and discontinuities
Published in G. Swoboda, Numerical Methods in Geomechanics Innsbruck 1988, 2017
Soapstone is a soft metamorphic rock composed mainly of talc minerals. The tested soapstone is available in the southwest region of Oregon, U.S.A. This soft rock is found to be relatively homogeneous and isotropic (15).
A proposal for the definition, nomenclature, and classification of soapstones
Published in GFF, 2018
Soapstones do not belong to the most common rock types in a spatial sense in ancient and recent orogens. Still, soapstones have been found all over the world within Precambrian and younger orogenic settings, and they have been used since the dawn of civilization. Due to good workability and heat durability, soapstone was widely used in carvings, beads, pipes, utensils, vessels, molds, and other cookware by prehistoric cultures as discussed in several papers (e.g., Allen et al. 1984; Storemyr & Heldal 2002; Shaffer 2003). Preparation of soapstone utility artifacts continued through the Middle Ages, and during that period soapstone was also beginning to be used as a building material (Storemyr & Heldal 2002). A remarkable increase in the usage of soapstone, especially of talc, took place in the beginning of the nineteenth century when needs for lubrication of machinery increased as a consequence of evolving industrialization. This, with the exploitation of soapstone as a dimension stone, construction material of buildings, fireplaces, and the developing usage of talc as an industrial mineral increased the appreciation of soapstone materials and the economic significance of soapstone deposits. The first half of the twentieth century was the most intense period of scientific soapstone studies as demonstrated by numerous papers published (e.g., Burfoot 1930; Hess 1933; Bain 1934; Du Rietz 1935; Wiik 1953; Vesasalo 1965 and references therein), and soapstone mining and production was started in many places in America, Europe, Asia, and The Middle East (Walther 1914; Wilson 1928; Wellman 1943; Engel 1949).