An orthorhombic mineral, Cu(IO3 )(OH); forms blue-green crystals;
in Chile.
Said of certain light-colored silicon- or aluminum-rich minerals present
in the norm of igneous rocks; e.g., quartz, feldspar, felspathoid. Also,
applied to rocks having one or more of these minerals as major components
of the norm. Etymol: a mnemonic term derived from "s"ilicon + "al"uminum +
"ic." CF:femic; mafic; felsic. AGI
Salt-bearing; esp. said of strata producing, containing, or impregnated
with salt. See also:saline
A hydrometer specially graduated to indicate directly the percentage of a
salt (as common salt) in a brine or other salt solution.
Webster 3rd
a. A place where crystalline salt deposits are formed or found, such as a
salt flat or pan, a salada, or a salt lick; esp. a salt-encrusted playa or
a wet playa. See also:playa
b. A body of saline water, such as a salt pond, lake, well, or spring, or
a playa lake having a high concentration of salts. AGI
c. Saltworks. AGI
d. Salt marsh. Etymol: Spanish; saltpit; salt mine; saltworks. Anglicized
equivalent: saline. AGI
a. A natural deposit of halite or of any other soluble salt; e.g., an
evaporite. See also:salines
b. An anglicized form of salina. In this usage, a saline may refer to
various features such as a playa, a salt flat, a saltpan, a salt marsh, a
salt lake, a salt pond, a salt well, or a saltworks. AGI
c. Salt spring. AGI
d. Salty; containing dissolved sodium chloride, e.g., seawater.
AGI
e. Having a salinity appreciably greater than that of seawater, e.g., a
brine. AGI
f. Containing dissolved salts at concentrations great enough to allow the
precipitation of sodium chloride; hypersaline. AGI
g. Said of a taste resembling that of common salt, esp. in describing the
properties of a mineral. AGI
See:evaporite
See:salines
See:evaporite
a. A general term for the naturally occurring soluble salts, such as
common salt, sodium carbonate, sodium nitrate, potassium salts, and borax.
Syn:saline deposits
b. A general term for salt mines, salt springs, salt beds, salt rock, and
salt lands. AGI
Said of a stratum that yields salt. AGI
The total amount of solid material in grams contained in 1 kg of water
when all the carbonate has been converted to oxide, the bromine and iodine
have been replaced by chlorine, and all organic matter has been completely
oxidized. Expressed as grams per kilogram of water or parts per thousand.
Hy
An instrument for determining salinity of water (a salinometer) by
measuring electrical conductivity of the water sample with a wheatstone
bridge. Hunt
An instrument that measures conductivity of a water sample. This
conductivity when compared with that of a sample of known salinity can be
converted to an expression of salinity for the unknown. Hy
A variety of diopside at Sala, Sweden. Also spelled sahlite.
A term used in Patagonia for a swampy place where salts (esp. potassium
nitrate) become encrusted in the dry season. Etymol: Spanish, saltpeter
bed. AGI
See:sal ammoniac
See:tarbuttite
a. A buff hydrous phosphate of manganese and iron, Fe2 O3
.9MnO.4P2 O5 .14H2 O ; orthorhombic; cleavable
fibrous masses. An alteration product of hureaulite. From Pala, San Diego
County, CA. English
b. A mixture of hureaulite plus jahnsite.
Crude soda ash. Standard, 2
a. A general term for naturally occurring sodium chloride, NaCl.
See also:halite; common salt; rock salt. AGI
b. To introduce extra amounts of a valuable mineral into a sample to be
assayed or into the working places of a mine, with fraudulent intent.
c. The generic term salt is applied to any one of a class of similar
compounds formed when the acid hydrogen of an acid is partly or wholly
replaced by a metal or a metallic radical. Kaufmann