SYLVITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sylvite mean? 

• SYLVITE (noun)
  The noun SYLVITE has 1 sense:

1. a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds

  Familiarity information: SYLVITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYLVITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds

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Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

sylvine; sylvite

Hypernyms ("sylvite" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "sylvite"):

atomic number 19; K; potassium (a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite)