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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[So called from NL. sal digestivus

sylvii

potassium chloride.]

(Min.)

Native potassium chloride.

Sylvite

sylvite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sylvites)

(mineralogy) A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium chloride K Cl, also found in fumaroles.

saline evaporite