kalinite
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of kalinite
1865–70; < New Latin kali ( um ) potassium ( see alkali, -ium) + intrusive -n- (perhaps by association with alkaline ) + -ite 1
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Further, the hair-like alum of Dioscorides, repeated by Pliny below, was quite conceivably fibrous kalinite, native potash alum, which occurs commonly as an efflorescence.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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