Talc

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A fine-grained white, greenish, or gray mineral, Mg3Si4O10(OH)2, having a soft soapy feel and used in talcum and face powder, as a paper coating, and as a filler for paint and plastics. noun

To apply this substance to (a photographic plate, for example). transitive verb

To treat, or rub with talc: as, in photography, to talc a plate to which it is desired to prevent the adherence of a film.

A magnesian silicate, usually consisting of broad, flat, smooth laminæ or plates, unctuous to the touch, of a shining luster, translucent, and often transparent when in very thin plates. noun

A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety. noun

An impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- called also talc slate. noun

A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. noun

To apply talc verb

A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder noun

Apply talcum powder to (one's body) verb

Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.

A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium.

A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.

Talcum powder.

TALCE is an acronym for Tanker Airlift Control Element. A small USAF unit that deployes to austere locations often close to combat areas and creates airfields to equipment and troops and head into combat. Urban Dictionary

French expression used on boards meaning : Truc à La Con (useless stuff / damn stuff) Urban Dictionary

1.) Shitty Norweigan wood that is the cause of existence. It IS the holy grail. It is used for many products ranging from things like Monster Energy Drinks, Gunblades, Asians, and babies. 2.) A boner Urban Dictionary

Talcum powder that is used liberally around the balls / groinal area to avoid the dreaded sack rash. Can also be used whilst doing a handstand as hoop powder to create mini anal atomic mushroom clouds, as in Mr. Methane! Urban Dictionary

The act of placing talcum powder or gold bond on your scrotum, to dry it after a shower. Urban Dictionary

The action of a old man masturbating yet when he ejaculates he is so old it comes out as dust rather than fluid. Urban Dictionary

When someone, usually a heavy set individual, douses themselves in talcum/baby powder to prevent excessive moisture and/or odor and/or chafing, resulting in them emanating a powdery scent. Urban Dictionary

A (usually black) man who only dates or has sex with white women. Sometimes seen or heard bragging about his penis or the women he's had sex with. Urban Dictionary

Another name for cocaine Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to talc:
talc.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word talc:
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Words that rhyme with talc:
calque, balkh, falck, visicalc, calc-.

Adjectives that are often used to describe talc:
powdered, pure, green, white, fibrous, fairy, little, massive, fine, purified, foliated, grade, sterile, indurated, cosmetic, transparent, venetian, commercial, much, common, soft, impure, compact, scaly, crystalline, earthy, sad, italian, scented, free, perfumed, thin, greenish, industrial, strange, unscented, plain, dry, crude, intrapleural, french, silvery, lavender, chinese, ordinary, granular, raw, grained, beautiful, schistose, sufficient, tremolitic, minor, blue, excess, micaceous, yellow, intracavitary, idle, surgical, laminar, finest, platy, coloured, folk, light, serpentine, romantic, melancholy, coarsely, norwegian, pale, wondrous, arabian, wet, coarse.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective talc:
schist, schists, slate, carbonate, mica, rocks, group, rock, lights, deposits, systems, mining, chlorite, stone, mixture, bearing, clay, treated, matrix, wax, faience, composites, powder, magnesite, tremolite, quartz, earth, filled.

Words that sound like talc:
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