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vanthoffite

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing magnesium, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Qualifier: minerals

Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Examples

  • 1968, Robert Kühn, Geochemistry of the German Potash Deposits, Richard B. Mattox (editor), Saline Deposits: A Symposium based on Papers from the International Conference on Saline Deposits, Houton Texas, 1962, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 88, page 431, At high temperatures there is a separation of the “thermophile” salts, halite, anhydrite, thenardite, bloedite, vanthoffite, loeweite, kainite, and langbeinite, which have a negative coefficient of solubility.
  • 1980, P. A. Storm, The Great Salt Lake Brine System, J. Wallace Gwynn (editor), Great Salt Lake: A Scientific, Historical and Economic Overview, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Bulletin 116, page 150, Other sodium bearing minerals that can be produced through solar evaporation are astrakainite. glaserite, and vanthoffite.

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History

Etymology

From Vanthoff + -ite, named for Dutch physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner Jacobus Hendricus van 't Hoff, Jr (1852-1911).