What's the difference between serpentine and soapstone?

Serpentine


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid.
  • (n.) A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent's skin. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich oil-green color.
  • (n.) A kind of ancient cannon.
  • (v. i.) To serpentize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Non-occupational exposure of the population living in the vicinity of the serpentine mining and processing mill in Nasławice was assessed.
  • (2) In October 2013, for a group exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery , they published a report called Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom , one chapter of which was entitled “Normcore”.
  • (3) The rock consists essentially of the fibrous serpentine mineral chrysotile (asbestos) and platy serpentines.
  • (4) The Serpentine's Poetry Marathon talks last year gave us 47 men and 18 women, as did its Manifesto Marathon the previous year.
  • (5) A few details of their plans have been revealed including the indication of it being the Serpentine's lowest pavilion ever, with the roof barely 1.5 metres (5ft) off the ground.
  • (6) Serpentine vessels were well seen as flow voids against high signal cyst or tumor on T2-weighted images, but contrast-enhanced CT also demonstrated them.
  • (7) A Swiss, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, is the co-director of the Serpentine Gallery.
  • (8) We present a case of cerebral giant serpentine aneurysm (GSA) and propose a definition of GSA.
  • (9) This giant serpentine aneurysm is a rather rare disease.
  • (10) In 10 years, only one solo woman architect, Zaha Hadid, has sketched the Serpentine's garden tent.
  • (11) Multiple extremely low-intensity serpentine "flow void" signs, indicating afferent and efferent vessels, were observed within or around the tumor.
  • (12) But later came work as diverse as The Maybe (1995) featuring the actor Tilda Swinton lying in a glass vitrine in the Serpentine Gallery, in London; a melted silver dollar drawn into wire so thin it was as long as the Empire State Building is tall; the wrapping of Rodin's The Kiss in a mile of string; and a 40-minute video of Parker interviewing Noam Chomsky.
  • (13) Angiograms in each case revealed a distinctive serpentine vascular channel surrounded by an avascular area causing a "mass effect."
  • (14) Environmental factors: The drinking-water pool in northern California is contaminated with asbestos of the serpentine type, which is associated with mesothelioma of the peritoneum and carcinoma of the lung, gallbladder, and pancreas.
  • (15) A simple and effective method of temporary tarsorrhaphy, which is referred to as intermarginal serpentine temporary tarsorrhaphy, is presented.
  • (16) Two cases of serpentine supravenous hyperpigmentation developing in the area of fotemustine infusions are reported.
  • (17) In some macaque species, transcervical aspiration of the uterine contents carries a significant risk of disturbing the cervical milieu due to the serpentine nature of the cervix.
  • (18) Overseas, he designed the United Nations secretariat in New York, the Communist party headquarters in Paris and Serpentine gallery summer pavilion in Hyde Park, London.
  • (19) Turn another, and you gaze on the royal park with the glories of the Serpentine.
  • (20) That led to a commission from the Serpentine Gallery, and performances in Paris and Moscow.

Soapstone


Definition:

  • (n.) See Steatite, and Talc.

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