Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white, brownish, or reddish mineral, KMgCl3·6H2O, an ore of potassium, used to manufacture potash salts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A milk-white or pink-colored mineral obtained from the salt-mines of Stassfurt, Prussia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
saline evaporite composed of a mixture ofpotassium chloride andmagnesium chloride , with thechemical formula K Mg Cl 3·6H2O.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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).
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Mg.l_ {2} + 2Na = 2NaCl + Mg. It is now made by electrolysis, but instead of using as the electrolyte the melted anhydrous chloride, which is difficult to obtain, the natural mineral carnallite is used.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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What weight of carnallite would be necessary in the preparation of 1 ton of potassium carbonate?
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Dürkheim; it is also found in lepidolite, leucite, petalite, triphylline and in the carnallite from Stassfurt.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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It is obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of potassium chloride from carnallite.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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What weight of carnallite is necessary in the preparation of 500 g. of magnesium?
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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It is prepared from carnallite by saturating boiling water with the mineral and allowing the solution to cool.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Above this last layer there is a layer of about 90 feet, containing kieserite (magnesium sulphate) mixed with potassium and magnesium chlorides; and above this again is a layer (90 feet) of carnallite, which furnishes the chief source of the potash salts used for manurial purposes.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Stassfurt salts of Germany (p. 113) contain borates of this type in the carnallite zone of the upper part of the deposits.
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The principal minerals in the potash horizon are carnallite
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