Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A whitish to yellowish hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral, MgSO4·H2O, found in salt residues.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrated sulphate of magnesium, occurring in considerable beds with rock-salt at Stass-furt, Prussia, and elsewhere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
saline evaporite , consisting ofhydrated magnesium sulphate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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"Since then we have been applying 200-300kg/ha of a fertiliser blend containing kieserite (magnesium sulphate) and ammonium sulphate, along with NPK and sodium, 6-7 times a year."
FWi - All News 2010
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The usual form of compound fertilizer used is a mixture of urea, double superphosphate, muriate of potash and kieserite to supply the magnesium.
Article Source 2009
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Using kieserite (magnesium sulphate) would be too expensive, so Mr Land's recommended an alternative.
FWi - All News 2009
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Which of these is good for nickel: kernite, kutnahorite, kullerudite, kieserite?
About.com Geology 2009
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