Sylvite

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Getty AAT: Materials (matter)

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<materials by composition> > inorganic material > mineral

Descripción

A colorless or white mineral consisting of potassium chloride, occurring typically as cubic crystals. It is rarer than halite (sodium chloride) and occurs as soft, bitter-tasting, white or grayish, glassy cubes or as masses with halite and gypsum in evaporite deposits in Germany, New Mexico, and Mount Vesuvius.

URI original del concepto

http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300386503

Otros términos

  • sylvine [en]