carnallite

1. 1.

   a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium

   Broadermineral

Other forms of carnallite

plural

carnallites·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carnallite

What does carnallite mean?

carnallite means "a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium".

How many syllables are in carnallite?

carnallite has 3 syllables: car-nal-lite. The stress falls on "car".

Is carnallite a common word?

carnallite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.