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Webster 1913 Edition
Kainite
Kai′nite
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] recent.]
(Min.)
A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.
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English
Noun
kainite (countable and uncountable, plural kainites)
- (mineralogy) A saline evaporite, consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride with the chemical formula MgSO4·KCl·3H2O, found in German salt mines.