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Definition of Sylvite
1. Noun. A mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds.
Definition of Sylvite
1. Noun. (minerology) A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium chloride KCl, also found in fumaroles. ¹
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Definition of Sylvite
1. an ore of potassium [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sylvite
Literary usage of Sylvite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Inductive Chemistry by Robert Hart Bradbury (1912)
"sylvite.—sylvite is a mineral which is found at Stass- furt and elsewhere in ...
Cold water dissolves less sylvite than salt and hot water more; that is, ..."
2. An Inductive Chemistry by Robert Hart Bradbury (1912)
"sylvite.—sylvite is a mineral which is found at Stass- furt and elsewhere in ...
Cold water dissolves less sylvite than salt and hot water more; that is, ..."
3. An Inductive Chemistry by Robert Hart Bradbury (1912)
"sylvite.—sylvite is a mineral which is found at Stass- furt and elsewhere in ...
Cold water dissolves less sylvite than salt and hot water more; that is, ..."
4. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"Pure sylvite contains 47.6 per cent Cl and 52.4 per cent K, but the mineral ...
The physical properties of sylvite are like those of halite, except that its ..."
5. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"sylvite (KC1) sylvite is isometric, like halite, but the etched figures that may be
... The physical properties of sylvite are like those of halite, ..."
6. Mineralogy Simplified: Easy Methods of Identifying Minerals, Including Ores by Henry Erni (1901)
"Colorless; lustre vitreous to greasy. In crusts, as an efflorescence, fibrous
massive. Taste sharp saline. sylvite, KCl, I. H=2; G = 2. ..."
7. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1913)
"Secondary deposits of the older type appear in the form of sylvite between ...
sylvite and carnallite are stable in concentrated NaCl solutions from 0° to ..."
8. An Inductive Chemistry by Robert Hart Bradbury (1912)
"sylvite.—sylvite is a mineral which is found at Stass- furt and elsewhere in ...
Cold water dissolves less sylvite than salt and hot water more; that is, ..."
9. An Inductive Chemistry by Robert Hart Bradbury (1912)
"sylvite.—sylvite is a mineral which is found at Stass- furt and elsewhere in ...
Cold water dissolves less sylvite than salt and hot water more; that is, ..."
10. An Inductive Chemistry by Robert Hart Bradbury (1912)
"sylvite.—sylvite is a mineral which is found at Stass- furt and elsewhere in ...
Cold water dissolves less sylvite than salt and hot water more; that is, ..."
11. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"Pure sylvite contains 47.6 per cent Cl and 52.4 per cent K, but the mineral ...
The physical properties of sylvite are like those of halite, except that its ..."
12. Descriptive Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1917)
"sylvite (KC1) sylvite is isometric, like halite, but the etched figures that may be
... The physical properties of sylvite are like those of halite, ..."
13. Mineralogy Simplified: Easy Methods of Identifying Minerals, Including Ores by Henry Erni (1901)
"Colorless; lustre vitreous to greasy. In crusts, as an efflorescence, fibrous
massive. Taste sharp saline. sylvite, KCl, I. H=2; G = 2. ..."
14. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1913)
"Secondary deposits of the older type appear in the form of sylvite between ...
sylvite and carnallite are stable in concentrated NaCl solutions from 0° to ..."
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