kainiten.
/ˈkʌɪnʌɪt/, /ˈkeɪnʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈkaɪˌnaɪt/, /ˈkeɪnaɪt/ Mineralogy.
Hydrous chlorosulphate of magnesium and potassium, found esp. in Germany and Russia, largely used as a fertilizer.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphates > [noun] > sulphates of two plus elements > hydrous or hydrated
polyhalite1818
neoplase1854
römerite1858
kainite1868
mamanite1868
plagiocitrite1886
redingtonite1888
knoxvillite1889
kleinite1907
mosesite1910
ransomite1928
leightonite1938
koktaite1948
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > sulphates or sulphites > other sulphates
aluma1398
aphronitrea1398
white vitriol1676
oxysulphate1802
hyposulphate1819
sulphur salt1836
potash alum1837
hepar1866
kainite1868
kalinite1868
nickel sulphate1868
trisulphate1880
trisulphonate1892
thalline sulphate1899
1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 642 Kainite..is nothing but the impure picromerite.
1877 Daily News 8 Oct. 2/6 Since the memorable discoveries of kainit and other mineral salts nearly twenty years ago at Stassfurth and Leopoldshall.
1882 Playfair Industr. U.S. in Macmillan's Mag. XLV. 335 The old exhausted soils lost their productiveness chiefly by the withdrawal of potash, but this is now found in the minerals carnallit and kainit.
1950 Engineering 4 Aug. 101/2 Among the interesting and unusual cargoes which had been shipped from time to time, there were some which had been described, respectively, as praff, shooks, kainit, and thiolith.
1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 38/3 This week we have been dressing beet ground with kainit, a cheap source of potash and salt.
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