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polyhalite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English

Syllables
poly-halite
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.

Countable; Uncountable

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Etymology

From German Polyhalit, from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús) + Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls) + -ite. Polyhalite is unrelated to halite other than name.

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Inflected Forms

polyhalites (plural)

Questions

What does polyhalite mean?
A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.
Where does polyhalite come from?
It is traced to German.

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