Definitions for carnallite

carnallite car·nall·ite

Spelling: [kahr-nl-ahyt]
IPA: /ˈkɑr nlˌaɪt/

Carnallite is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 709 anagrams from letters in carnallite (aaceillnrt).

Definitions for carnallite

noun

  1. a white hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O, used chiefly as a source of potassium and magnesium.

Origin of carnallite

1875-85; named after R. von Carnall (1804-74), German mining official; see -ite1

Examples for carnallite

It is obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of potassium chloride from carnallite.

At the point K we have the highest temperature at which carnallite can exist with magnesium chloride in contact with solution.

It is also formed as a by-product in the manufacture of potassium chloride from carnallite.

What weight of carnallite is necessary in the preparation of 500 g. of magnesium?

In the first place it may be again noted that at a temperature above 167.5 (point M) carnallite cannot exist.

It is prepared from carnallite by saturating boiling water with the mineral and allowing the solution to cool.

carnallite contains nearly a fourth of its weight of potassium chloride.

Fig. 113 is a diagrammatic sketch of the model for carnallite looked at sideways from above.

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