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glauberite
[ glou-buh-rahyt ]
noun
- a mineral, sodium calcium sulfate, Na 2 Ca(SO 4 ) 2 , often found as a deposit on the beds of salt lakes.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of glauberite1
1800鈥10; < French; so called because chemically similar to Glauber's salt; -ite 1
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The results suggest the writing surface is largely composed of sulfate salts, including glauberite, gypsum and thenardite 鈥 minerals that dissolve in water and are left behind when the water evaporates.
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Glauberite, glaw鈥瞓er-墨t, n. a grayish-white mineral, a compound of the sulphates of sodium and calcium, found chiefly in rock-salt.
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In combination with calcium sulphate, it constitutes the mineral glauberite or brongniartite, Na2SO4锟紺aSO4, which assumes forms belonging to the monoclinic system and occurs in Spain and Austria.
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