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Encyclopedia Britannica



SYLVITE

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 284 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
SYLVITE , a
mineral
  consisting of potassium chloride (KCI), first observed in 1823, as an encrustation on Vesuvian lava. Well-formed crystals were subsequently found in the
salt
  deposits of
Stassfurt
  in
Prussia
  and Kalusz in Austrian
Galicia
 . It crystallizes in the cubic
system
  with the form of 'cubes and cubooctahedra and possesses perfect cleavages parallel to the faces of the
cube
 . Although the crystals are very similar in
appearance
  to crystals of common
salt
 , they are proved by etching experiments to possess a different degree of symmetry, namely plagihedral-cubic, there being no planes of symmetry but the full number of axes of symmetry. Crystals are colourless (sometimes
bright
  blue) and transparent; the hardness is 2 and the, specific gravity 1'93. Like salt, it is highly diathermanous. The name sylvite or sylvine is from the old pharmaceutical name, sal digestivus sylvii, for this salt. (L. J. S.)


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