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sylvine Min.|ˈsɪlvɪn|
[a. F. sylvine (Beudant, 1832), from the old name of the salt, sal digestivus Sylvii ‘digestive salt of Sylvius’: see -ine5.]
Native potassium chloride, occurring in some salt-mines and on Mount Vesuvius. Also called sylvite |ˈsɪlvaɪt|.
1850Ansted Elem. Geol., Min. etc. §370 Sylvine, Chloride of potash. 1868Dana Min. (ed. 5) 111 Sylvite. 1913Illustr. Lond. News 22 Feb. 238/3 Sylvine happens to be one of the minerals which, in one of its forms, emits electricity on compression. |