- 1爽身粉、痱子粉（talcum powder）；在地質學裡指滑石。台灣店裡多半就講「痱子粉」。
Talc is the soft white powder people put on skin to keep it dry and stop it rubbing — on a baby after a bath, in shoes, under a sports shirt on a hot day. The fuller name is talcum powder, and talc is the short everyday form. Behind the powder is a mineral, also called talc, and it is famous in science class for being the softest mineral there is — number one on the Mohs hardness scale, so soft you can scratch it with a . That softness is exactly why it works: ground up, it slides. So the word does double duty, the rock and the powder, and the sentence tells you which. One thing an honest teacher should add: talc has become a careful word in the last twenty years. Talc is dug out of the ground near asbestos, and lawsuits and health worries about contaminated talcum powder have pushed many parents and companies toward powder instead. Some big brands stopped selling talc-based baby powder altogether. So if you read 'talc-free' on a label, that is what it is answering. It is uncountable — some talc, a little talc, never 'a talc'.
組成The word came into English from French talc, and before that from Arabic طَلْق (ṭalq), and before that from Persian. It reached Europe with Arabic writing on minerals and medicines — one of a whole set of science words that came the same way.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
talcnoun/tælk/
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obsoleteOriginally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Medieval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
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obsoleteA microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium.
- M. [Antonie van] Leeuwenhoek fixed his objects, if they were ſolid, to the foregoing point with glue; if they were fluid, he fitted them on a little plate of talc, or exceeding thin blown glaſs, which he afterwards glued to the needle, in the ſame manner as his other objects.
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A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
- The abeer is often mixed with powdered talc to make it glitter, and then, if it gets into the eyes, it causes a good deal of pain.
- With this background and experience we feel justified in stating that not all talcs contain, or are associated with, asbestos.
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Talcum powder.
talcverb/tælk/
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To apply talc to.
- "Generous talcing" is applied not only to the naked bale, but to the inside of the wrapper, and after stenciling, to the interior of the package. This talcing is repeated, "if necessary, dependent upon the number of handlings up to and into stores for steamer loading."
- Three manufacturers have now produced separate designs for talcing boxes; one uses conventional techniques of brushing and vibrators, one is a fluidised bed and the third is an electrostatic applicator.
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