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n. - A mineral consisting of native potassium chloride.

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  • Others are used for making fertilizers (e.g. apatite for phosphate and sylvite for potassium).
  • Checking a little further, we found that Potassium Chloride has some alarming properties: first, Potassium chloride occurs naturally as sylvite and is also extracted...
  • Sylvinite, sylvite and langbeinite are the most important.
  • The potassium salts like carnallite, langbeinite, polyhalite, and sylvite are found in ancient lake and sea beds.
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