Halite (/ˈhælaɪt, ˈheɪlaɪt/ HAL-yte, HAY-lyte), commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral (natural) form of sodium chloride (NaCl). Halite...
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cleavage planes intersecting at 90 degrees. Halite (or salt) has cubic cleavage, and therefore, when halite crystals are broken, they will form more cubes...
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Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride. Halite may also refer to: Halite (oxyanion), also known as a halogenite Central Sofia Market Hall, in Sofia...
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Salt dome (redirect from Halite dome)
Structural dome formed of salt or halite...
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virtual grid. Due to the success of Halite I, Two Sigma decided to develop a second season of Halite called Halite II. This ran from October 2017 to January...
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National Ignition Facility (redirect from Centurion-Halite)
small nuclear bombs to illuminate ICF targets. The tests were known as Halite (LLNL) and Centurion (LANL). The basic concept behind the tests had been...
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A halite, also known as a halogenite, is an oxyanion containing a halogen in a III oxidation state. It is the conjugate base of a halous acid. The known...
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Halite is an open-source computer programming contest developed by the hedge fund/tech firm Two Sigma in partnership with a team at Cornell Tech. Programmers...
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groundwater. Halite formations are famous for their ability to form diapirs, which produce ideal locations for trapping petroleum deposits. Halite deposits...
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within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres (660 ft) underground in a halite mountain near the city of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is a...
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associated with spellwork in Wiccan beliefs and related religious movements. Halite (table salt, NaCl): Microscopic and macroscopic The scientific definition...
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Himalayan salt is rock salt (halite) mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan. The salt, which often has a pinkish tint due to trace minerals, is primarily...
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transparent or translucent, brittle, hygroscopic, and occurs as the mineral halite. In its edible form, it is commonly used as a condiment and food preservative...
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salt deposits from underground. The mined salt is usually in the form of halite (commonly known as rock salt), and extracted from evaporite formations....
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4.03 Halite LiCl 5.14 Halite LiBr 5.50 Halite LiI 6.01 Halite NaF 4.63 Halite NaCl 5.64 Halite NaBr 5.97 Halite NaI 6.47 Halite KF 5.34 Halite KCl 6...
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Mercia Mudstone Group (section Wilkesley Halite member)
subcrop. The formations are a mix of mudstones, siltstones, sandstones and halites. Historically this sequence of rocks has been subdivided in different ways...
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creating a concavity similar to that of a hopper bismuth (artificial), halite, galena Oolithic Small cirumferences or grains (commonly flattened) that...
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crust and exists in numerous minerals such as feldspars, sodalite, and halite (NaCl). Many salts of sodium are highly water-soluble: sodium ions have...
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Bristol Lake (section Halite)
in the playa followed by mud-halite and halite on top. The mud lithofacies consists of thick detrital mud, and the halite lithofacies is defined by giant...
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water-soluble. Common examples of halides include halite (NaCl, table salt), sylvite (KCl), and fluorite (CaF2). Halite and sylvite commonly form as evaporites...
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forms crystals in the isometric system very similar to normal rock salt, halite (NaCl). The two are, in fact, isomorphous. Sylvite is colorless to white...
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The "Lot's Wife" pillar on Mount Sodom, Israel, made of halite...
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Cubic crystal system (redirect from Halite structure)
MgCe, RuAl and SrTl.[citation needed] The space group of the rock-salt or halite (sodium chloride) structure is denoted as Fm3m (in Hermann–Mauguin notation)...
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18996-35-5 NaCa2(Al5Si5O20) · 6H2O thomsonite NaCl sodium chloride rock-salt halite 7647-14-5 NaClO2 sodium chlorite 7758-19-2 NaClO3 sodium chlorate 7775-09-9...
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mechanical mixture of the minerals sylvite (KCl, or potassium chloride) and halite (NaCl, or sodium chloride). Sylvinite is the most important source for the...
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form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as rock salt or halite. Salt is essential for life in general (being the source of the essential...
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Halite, the mineral form of sodium chloride, forms when salty water evaporates leaving the ions behind....
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Silicified remains of algae and silica pseudomorph after halite in flint. Pebble of Loire near Marcigny, France. Image width: about 5 mm....
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test for magnetism. Taste: Minerals can have a distinctive taste such as halite (which tastes like table salt). A rock is any naturally occurring solid...
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east. Along the southwestern side of the lake is a 210 m (700 ft) tall halite mineral formation called Mount Sodom. There are two contending hypotheses...
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