Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white, gray, pink, or black mineral, MgSO4·KCl·3H2O, used as a fertilizer and a source of potassium compounds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrous magnesium sulphate with potassium chlorid, occurring in beds of considerable extent at the salt-mines of Stassfurt, Germany.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
saline evaporite , consisting ofmagnesium sulphate andpotassium chloride with thechemical formula Mg S O 4·K Cl ·3H2O, found inGerman salt mines .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride; a source of potassium salts; used as a fertilizer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To the substances used for treating brewing liquors already mentioned we may add kainite, a naturally deposited composite salt containing potassium and magnesium sulphates and magnesium chloride.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Copperas or blue stone, kainite and superphosphate are sometimes used for the same purpose.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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The crude salts, kainite and sylvinite, and the muriate contain chlorine and are not considered good for potatoes and tobacco as the chlorine lowers the quality of these products.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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For over a century, rock phosphate and kainite -- a soft, readily soluble naturally occurring rock rich in potassium, magnesium and sulfur -- have been ground and used as fertilizer.
Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon
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Acid phosphate and kainite added to the manure may pay handsomely.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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K - a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite
Word of the Day 2009
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Ph. D., said, "Tezampanel and its oral prodrug NGX426 are the first glutamate receptor antagonists to be tested in human pain trials with combined binding activity at the AMPA and kainite receptor subtypes.
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