noun
- Plural of kieserite; hydrated magnesium sulfate minerals, typically occurring as colorless or white crystals, used in fertilizers and industrial applications.
Usage: technical; mineralogy; chemistry
Examples
- Kieserites are important sources of magnesium in agricultural fertilizers.
- The mineral deposits contained significant quantities of kieserites mixed with other sulfates.
- Industrial chemists extract magnesium from kieserites for various manufacturing processes.
- Kieserites crystallize in the monoclinic system and are found in evaporite deposits.
- The company mines kieserites to produce magnesium sulfate products for the market.