kaolinite

kaolinite

English

Kaolinite

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

kaolinite (countable and uncountable, plural kaolinites)

1. (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

Catalan: caolinita f Chinese: Mandarin: 高嶺石／高岭石 (gāolǐngshí), 觀音土／观音土 (zh) (Guānyīntǔ) 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 Japanese: カオリナイト (kaorinaito) Kazakh: ақсаздық (aqsazdyq), каолинит (kaolinit) 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

• china clay
• dickite
• halloysite
• nacrite

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Kaolinite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “kaolinite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

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French

Noun

kaolinite f (plural kaolinites)

1. (mineralogy) kaolinite

Further reading

• “kaolinite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.