Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native potassium chlorid, a mineral occurring in white or colorless cubes or octahedrons, found in some salt-mines, as at Stass-furt, Germany, also on Mount Vesuvius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Native potassium chloride.
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- noun mineralogy
sylvite
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- noun a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds
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However, there are no babblers, only two sylvine warblers, and just one bulbul species.
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This salt occurs in nature in sea water, in the mineral sylvine, and, combined with magnesium chloride, as carnallite (KCl·MgCl_ {2} ·6H_ {2} O).
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Potassium occurs in nature as chloride, in the mineral sylvine (KCl), and more abundantly combined with magnesium chloride, in earnallite
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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With potassium it forms sylvine (KCl), and, together with magnesium, carnallite (KCl.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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