evaporite
See also: Evaporite
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈvæp.əˌɹaɪt/
Noun
evaporite (countable and uncountable, plural evaporites)
- The salty, crusty sediment that remains after sea water evaporates.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 129:
- Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out.
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.va.poˈri.te/
- Rhymes: -ite
- Hyphenation: e‧va‧po‧rì‧te
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