In association with our work with the American Chemical Society, we have developed a field procedure for distinguishing halite from sylvite. |
Water decomposes kainite to epsomite and sylvite. |
Sylvite, also called sylvine, is a major source of potassium or potash used in fertilizer products. |
It occurs naturally as the mineral sylvite and in combination with sodium chloride as sylvinite. |
When the solution reaches one-tenth the volume of the original, more soluble minerals like sylvite and halite form. |
The most common minerals of chlorine are halite, or rock salt, sylvite, and carnallite. |