evaporite

See also: Evaporite

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈvæp.əˌɹaɪt/

Noun

evaporite (countable and uncountable, plural evaporites)

  1. 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

Noun

evaporite f (plural evaporiti)

  1. evaporite

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