A Trove on the Womenâs Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box. Isabella Beecher Hooker, left, and Susan B. Anthony. A cache of letters to Hooker from Anthony and other womenâs suffragists has been discovered. It was 1874, a challenging year for Susan B. Anthony and the womenâs suffrage movement. She had been convicted of illegally voting in Rochester, her hometown, and activists were split over the best way to push the movement forward. On April 9, Anthony wrote to a fellow activist named Isabella Beecher Hooker, looking ahead to better days.
Definition of 'talcum powder'. Word Frequency. talcum powder (tÃ¦lkÉm paÊdÉÊ³ ) uncountable noun. Talcum powder is fine powder with a pleasant smell which people put on their bodies after they have had a bath or a shower.
talc. A white, greenish, or gray mineral that is a silicate of magnesium, usually occurring as massive mica-like flakes. It has a soft, soapy texture, and is used in face powder and talcum powder, for coating paper, and as a filler in paints and plastics.Talc is the mineral used to represent a hardness of 1 on the Mohs scale.alc. n. 1. See talcum powder. 2. (Minerals) a white, grey, brown, or pale green mineral, found in metamorphic rocks. It is used in the manufacture of talcum powder and electrical insulators. Composition: hydrated magnesium silicate.