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    SYLVINE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary bedsplay

    Synonyms:

    sylvine; sylvite

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    Nouns denoting substances

    Hypernyms ("sylvine" is a kind of...):

    mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

    Meronyms (substance of "sylvine"):

    atomic number 19; K; potassium (a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite)

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