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A white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines
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kieserite
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n. a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines
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n. (context mineralogy English) A saline evaporite, consisting of hydrated magnesium sulphate
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Kieserite is the magnesium sulfate mineral (MgSO·HO) and is named after Dietrich Georg von Kieser (Jena, Germany 1862). It has a vitreous luster and it is colorless, grayish-white or yellowish. Its hardness is 3.5 and crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal ...
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Kieserite \Kie"ser*ite\, n. [Named after Prof. Kieser, of Jena.] (Min.) Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.