AGALMATOLITE

AGALMAT'OLITE, noun [Gr. image, and stone.]A name given by Klaproth to two varieties of the pierre de lard, lard stone, of China. It contains no magnesia, but otherwise has the characters of talck. It is called in German, bildstein, figure-stone, and by Brongniart, steatite pagodite.

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Ag′al‐mat″o‐lite (ăg′ăl‐măt″ō̍‐līt), n. [[Gr. ἄγαλμα, -ματοσ, image, statue + -lite: cf. F. agalmatolithe.]] (Min.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.