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asmeesh · 6 months
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It's been a full year since I carved anything. Felt good to make this.
I ordered this bright green stone that turns out to be terrible for carving, it breaks into sheets. But that gave me the idea to use it as a little ice floe.
So say hi to Floe, the fishing bear.
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yousadclownofaman · 2 months
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Have some photos of this pipe I carved
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corvidsofthedeep · 1 month
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Non Context Crow #326: Soapstone Crow
Buy one here!
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thejoyofseax · 6 months
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Cooking in Stoneware Pots
For my elevation, Órlaith and Gytha got me a stoneware cooking pot. This is a pot made of actual stone - soapstone - and of a kind widely used in the Middle East in the era in which al-Warraq was writing. I have finally gotten a chance to try it out, since Pen & Sword provided me with an event where I had room on the fire and wasn't under any pressure to produce food (I was cooking a couple of Arabic stews, but they're things I know well).
The most immediate thing, which is completely obvious once it's pointed out, but which I didn't know before, is that a thick stone pot (the walls are not quite an inch thick) retains far more heat than a cast iron pot, which retains a good bit more heat itself than a stainless steel one. Nonetheless, if you take a cast iron pot off the heat, it will stop boiling in seconds. The stoneware one just keeps on boiling, and will do so for a good 2-3 minutes.
This makes sense of a number of instructions in period texts where pots are removed from the heat, and also makes sense in the context of serving the food in the cooking pot - the food will stay hot for much longer than it could in any serving dish. There's usually an instruction to wipe down the pot to remove soot and so on, so there's no doubt that it's the actual cooking pot.
Second, and this will need more trials, the food tasted different - the sweetness of the onions was far more evident. Also, there's a separation that happens when the stew is ready; you can see oil and other liquids apart from each other at the edges of the pot. This happened sooner, by far, in the stone pot. That might be because it's smaller, of course. Further experimentation needed.
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geologyin-blog · 3 months
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Soapstone is a naturally occurring metamorphic rock primarily composed of the mineral talc. a magnesium-rich mineral, and its name comes from its smooth, soapy feel. Soapstone is formed through metamorphism, a process where heat and pressure transform pre-existing rocks into new ones. 
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fromthedust · 1 year
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Whale
soapstone - California - Chumash culture
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The next generation of sustainable energy technology might be built from some low-tech materials: rocks and the sun. Using a new approach known as concentrated solar power, heat from the sun is stored then used to dry foods or create electricity. A team reporting in ACS Omega has found that certain soapstone and granite samples from Tanzania are well suited for storing this solar heat, featuring high energy densities and stability even at high temperatures. Energy is often stored in large batteries when not needed, but these can be expensive and require lots of resources to manufacture. A lower-tech alternative is thermal energy storage (TES), which collects energy as heat in a liquid or solid, such as water, oil or rock. When released, the heat can power a generator to produce electricity. Rocks such as granite and soapstone are specifically formed under high heat and found across the globe, which might make them favorable TES materials. However, their properties can vary greatly based on where in the world they were formed, possibly making some samples better than others. In Tanzania, the Craton and Usagaran geological belts meet, and both contain granite and soapstone. So, Lilian Deusdedit Kakoko, Yusufu Abeid Chande Jande and Thomas Kivevele from Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology and Ardhi University wanted to investigate the properties of soapstone and granite found in each of these belts.
Read more.
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alberta1st · 2 years
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ippinka · 1 year
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These Soapstone Shot Glasses will keep your shots nice and cold.
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bigmeatpete69420 · 1 month
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These really cool white rocks I found in my backyard
I think they are either a type of soap stone or quartz or marble most likely quartz
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asmeesh · 2 years
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Just finished the 10lb solid soapstone bear, complete with little removable salmon.
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mommatoomany · 1 year
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itsmycherryforest · 1 year
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Cherryforest
Polar bear soapstone sculpture, artist signed and numbered
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thejoyofseax · 6 months
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Isn't soapstone made of talc which can be a carcinogen?
Hello Anon! It would be more accurate to say that talc is made from soapstone. Talc can be a carcinogen, or at least there's a correlation between its (prolonged) use and some cancers. However, it's specifically the very fine loose dust that does that, not the stuff itself. Soapstone pots don't let that fine dust off, so they're safe to use. Indeed, even medieval soapstone carving tools wouldn't have generated dust that fine, so it's only people making soapstone products with modern grinding and sanding tools that would need to wear masks while doing so.
Separately, there are so many materials that have been demonstrated to be carcinogens - including oxygen! - that I don't think we can take minor correlations all that seriously. Crispy bacon, for instance, is far more carcinogenic than talc.
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artparks-sculpture · 6 months
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A sculpture titled 'I See You To (Amusing Fun Carved Stone Owl sculpture)' by sculptor Anton Yavny. In a medium of Brazilian Soapstone, Canadian Maple a.
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guiltyidealist · 1 year
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hey everyone I made a FELLA
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