Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless or white mineral, NaCl, occurring as cubic crystals and found in dried lakebeds in arid climates, mined or gathered for use as table salt.
- noun Rock salt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mineralogy, native rock-salt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Native salt; sodium chloride.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy
Native salt ;sodium chloride Na Cl as a mineral;rock salt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride
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Examples
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The formal mineral name for crystalline sodium chloride is halite, derived from the Greek word hals meaning salt.
Halite 2008
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Evaporite minerals such as halite (sodium chloride, or table salt) and gypsum produce the white deposits.
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned their lungfuls of air ripple as indecipherable a vision translucent as halite in opaque huelessness the night of it meandering breath is the sea rote I float to the pupil wade the green iris shut in its eyelid these thoughts dream me and not I them how from out of silence clarities swim
The Night Shore Raymond Gibson 2011
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Pure halite is colorless, though it is often colored by impurities.
Halite 2008
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By dating the halite, Zolensky's team found the water trapped inside it formed at least 4.5 billion years ago, back when most scientists believe our solar system was born.
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Some industrial minerals are used as sources of important chemicals (e.g. halite for sodium chloride and borax for borates).
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This deposit consists of thick, extensive beds of trona and thin trona beds inter-bedded with salt (halite).
Soda ash or Trona 2008
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This allows halite to be useful in such varied applications as cooking, food preservation, and chemical production.
Halite 2008
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Even more curious were the hundreds of tiny bubbles suspended in the halite crystals.
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The scientists were intrigued to find vivid purple crystals of halite inside the meteorite, since halite is a salt mineral usually formed from liquid water.
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