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SYLVINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sylvine mean?
• SYLVINE (noun)
The noun SYLVINE has 1 sense:
1. a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds
Familiarity information: SYLVINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
sylvine; sylvite
Hypernyms ("sylvine" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "sylvine"):
atomic number 19; K; potassium (a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite)
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