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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy sylvite
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) Native potassium chloride.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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.”
“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).”
“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.
“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.
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