Definition of Kainit

1. n. Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

Definition of Kainit

1. Noun. Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kainit

1. kainite [n -S] - See also: kainite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kainit

kaimacams
kaimak
kaimakam
kaimakams
kaims
kain
kainahineri
kainate
kainate receptor
kainates
kaing
kainga
kaingas
kainic
kainic acid
kainit (current term)
kainite
kainites
kainits
kainogenesis
kains
kaique
kaiques
kairine
kairines
kairoline
kairomone
kairomones
kairos
kais

Literary usage of Kainit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Agriculture by George Frederick Warren (1920)
"kainit, Muriate of Potash and Sulfate of Potash. kainit is mined in Germany in the same way as rock-salt. It was probably deposited in the same way. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"It also appears therefrom that, of the fertilizer so sold, 74 tons were dissolved bone, 35 tons were tobacco fertilizer, and 65 tons were of kainit, ..."

3. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1872)
"The 1872 Plaintiffs had not, nor had either of them, ever given any consent to the Defendants, or either of them, to sell kainit, or use the word ..."

4. Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to by Nathaniel Cleveland Moak, John Thomas Cook (1877)
"In 1869, when kainit was first introduced, no one was ottering or selling an ... for the kainit supplied by them. The plaintiff Otto Radde, acting under his ..."

5. Soil Fertility and Fertilizers by James Edward Halligan (1912)
"... although a potash manure salt containing 20 per cent, of potash is sometimes sold which acts like kainit. COMPOSITION OF POTASH MANURE SALTS. ..."

6. Report on the Fertilizer Industry: August 19, 1916 by United States Federal Trade Commission (1916)
"Wholesale prices and distributors' prices to merchants and farmers for kainit and muriate of potash are given in Tables 51 and 52 below. TABLE 51. ..."

7. Plant Products and Chemical Fertilizers by Sidney Hoare Collins (1919)
"The material put upon the market as kainit has, for a long time, ... The composition of the German kainit manure has been very constant, the average over ..."

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