^puna ma- 
ns. 
P^nellarsum 
^Uorites, 
EARTHS. TALCOSE. i. Taltum. 63 
ORDER i. TALCOSE. 
i. TALCUM. Confifting principally of carbonate 
of magnefia, and filica and carbon : foft, greafy 
to the touch, not admitting a polifb : hardening 
in the fire, not efFervefcing with nitric acid, ab- 
forbing oil. 
Whitifh, tenacious, hardening in the air. 
Atgi la lithomarga. Syjt.nat xii 3 p zoi, #.5. 
Keffekil. Myrfen. Kirnnsan mineral. V-p- 144. 
Sounta maris. Schnieijir mineral 1./.209. 
Kiffekil. Sea-froth. Thom/on^iChesntlirf,\,p,^^q, 
Found in fmaU veins covered with foil in Asiatolia, near Kouif 
Thrace, Greece, and Nerth America: colour white andyellow- 
ifc white: confillencc waxy when Irefli : adheres to the 
tongue, and abforhs water: fpecific gravity i. 600 contains 
filica 50. 50. magnefia 17 25. water 25. 00. carbonic acid 
5. 00. lime . 50 Klapr, It is uied to make the bowls of 
Turhilh tobacco pipes. 
Tinged, tenacious. 
Hoffmann Ber^m. Journ, 1789. t. p, \ 
Found in Corn’wall and Bedfordjhire, Portugal and Saxoni, in 
large malfcs under the common foil ; colour ycllowiih or 
greeniih-grey, greeniih-whice, green, or fleili-colour. Is 
ufed to take fpots of greafe out of cloth. 
White with a cad of green, tenacious, forming porcelane 
in a greater degree of heat. 
Guetturd Lansoifeer Aid. Paris, 1778 p. 433,434. 
Martial muriatic fpar. Kirnvan mineral, i 143. 
Found in Lorrain at the depth of 30 feet, in ftrata of 7 or 8 feet; 
and is ufed by potters in the manufafture of porcelane. 
Friable, fcaty, green, gives an earthy fmell when breathed 
upon, melting with a greater heat into a dark brown 
glafs. 
Chlorite. Peach. Kirnvan mitseral. i. p. 147. 
Chloric. Schmeiffer mineral ■ t p- 196 1 hornj cim. 3. />. 382. 
Found in Sn.uitaerland .nd Saxony, in piiniitive mountains and 
rock cryftal ; colour grafs or dark-green : has a fcaly texture 
and glittering appearance. 
Friable, fcaly, apyrous. 
Hoffmann Berg.yourn, 1789. x. p, t6o. 
Found near Freyhurg in Saxony. 
