Its property of absorbing large proportions of water, up to 80%, and yet present the appearance of a hard solid body, makes the material a basis for the hydrated soaps, smooth and marbled, in which water, sulphate of soda, and other alkaline solutions, soluble silicates, fuller's earth, starch, &c.
marbled הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד