Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless vitreous potassium chloride mineral, the major ore of potassium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sylvine .
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- noun mineralogy A
saline evaporite , consisting ofpotassium chloride K Cl , also found infumaroles .
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- noun a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Others are used for making fertilizers (e.g. apatite for phosphate and sylvite for potassium).
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Checking a little further, we found that Potassium Chloride has some alarming properties: first, Potassium chloride occurs naturally as sylvite and is also extracted from salt water and can be manufactured by crystallization from solution, flotation or electrostatic separation from suitable minerals.
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The minerals anorthite, albite, and orthoclase named in this figure are all feldspars; sylvite and halite are chlorides of potash and soda.
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Sylvinite, sylvite and langbeinite are the most important.
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The potassium salts like carnallite, langbeinite, polyhalite, and sylvite are found in ancient lake and sea beds.
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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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Chlorine is a compound of the most common minerals; rock salt or halite (NaCl), sylvite (KCl) and carnallite (MgCl12.
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Chlorine is a compound of the most common minerals; rock salt or halite (NaCl), sylvite (KCl) and carnallite (MgCl12.
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