kaolinite

English

Kaolinite

Etymology

From kaolin +‎ -ite (see kaolin for more).

Noun

kaolinite (countable and uncountable, plural kaolinites)

(mineralogy) A common hydrous aluminosilicate mineral found in sediments, soils and sedimentary rocks, Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄; one of the kaolin group of minerals.

Related terms

kaolin, kaoline

Translations

Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄

Chinese:
Mandarin: 高嶺石, 高岭石 (gāolǐngshí)
Czech: kaolinit m
Esperanto: kaolinito
Estonian: kaoliniit
Finnish: kaoliniitti (fi)
French: kaolinite (fr) f
German: Kaolinit m
Hindi: चीनी मिट्टी f (cīnī miṭṭī)
Hungarian: kaolinit (hu)

Italian: caolinite f
Polish: kaolinit (pl) m
Portuguese: caulinita (pt) f
Russian: каолини́т (ru) m (kaolinít)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: каолѝнӣт m

Roman: kaolìnīt (sh) m
Slovak: kaolinit m
Spanish: caolinita f
Turkish: kaolinit (tr)

See also

Further reading

“Kaolinite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
“kaolinite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

French

Noun

kaolinite f (plural kaolinites)

(mineralogy) kaolinite

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