talcose

[ tal-kohs, tal-kohs ]

adjective

1. containing or composed largely of talc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of talcose¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; talc + -ose ¹

Example Sentences

These lands of decomposed mica and talcose schists contain throughout their broad extent particles of gold; and some of the narrow and circumscribed fields are unsurpassed in their undeveloped richness by any of the known gold fields of similar extent in the world.

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The talcose variety is very tabular in form.

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Microscopically, it consists of minute irregular-shaped particles of a mineral that appears to be the result of a chloritic or talcose alteration of a felspar.

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Many fragments of red, gray, and purple basalt and porphyry were met with along the beach; talcose rock and slate, syenite, hornblend, quartz, both compact and slaty, with chalcedony, were found in pieces and large pebbles.

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In contact with the greenstone, there is a bed of talcose limestone, having a curved, slaty structure; most of the beds of dolomite are hard, and pass into chert.

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