| 单词 | rock soap | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock soap   rock soap  n. 		 (a) Mineralogy (now historical) any of certain earthy clay minerals with a greasy texture, esp. halloysite; (also) †steatite (obsolete);		 †(b) (in soap making) = sense  5e   (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > 			[noun]		 > bole > type of terra chia1615 Turkey earth1748 yellow earth1794 rock soap1803 1803    Gazetteer Scotl. at Hamilton  				There are several beds of steatites, or rock-soap. 1852    Rep. Juries Exhib. 1851 II. xxix. 1377  				The lime decomposes the tallow and combines with the resulting stearic, margaric and oleic acids, forming a lime-soap (rock soap). 1854    J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 		(ed. 4)	 I.  iv. 252  				Rock soap, (Bergseife), Bolus of Sinope, and Ochran of Orawitza, are of similar character. 1883    Amer. Naturalist 17 872  				Massive varieties of mesolite and of thomsonite, the latter sometimes called ‘rock soap’, are also described. 1901    G. P. Merrill in  Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1899  ii. 347  				A rock soap from Ventura County, California, has been described..as a mixture of sandy and clayey or soapy material in the proportion of 45 per cent of the first and 55 per cent of the second. 1998    W. Bright Gudde's Calif. Place Names 		(ed. 4)	 at Javon  				It [sc. a mining boom] was started in 1875 when HL Bickford began to work a ‘rock soap’ mine in the canyon. rock soap  b.   rock soap, a variety of bole. Π 1883    Encycl. Brit. XVI. 425  				Magnesian Silicates... Bole. Earthy, in nests and veins... Stolpenite, Rock Soap, Plinthite..are varieties. < as lemmas  | 
	
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