Soapstone
A soft metamorphic rock composed chiefly of the mineral talc, also called steatite, worked as a dense dimension stone.
How it connects
In other taxonomies
- soapstone (metamorphic rock)Getty AAT, 300011665nearly the same
- soapstoneWikidata, Q707896nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
The word “soapstone”
2 meanings
- SoapstoneMaterial, this termNo default
- soapstoneColorScope named colorNo default
Record
- Broader
- Stone
- Provenance
- referencedWikidata Q707896 soapstone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707896; Natural Stone Institute varieties, https://www.naturalstoneinstitute.org/designprofessionals/varieties/, read 11 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/soapstoneKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderStoneoutgoing
- narrowerStoneincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Stoneoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Mineraloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Alabasteroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Basaltoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Graniteoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Limestoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Marbleoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Onyxoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Quartziteoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Sandstoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Slateoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300011665 | soapstone (metamorphic rock) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q707896 | soapstone | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Soapstone via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search?query=Soapstone&filter=status%3ACurrent | none |