halite
Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt.
Noun
- Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt.
- The surface of halite was always sort of trippy, he thought, like a hallucinogen. - 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 189:
- An oxyanion containing a halogen in the +3 oxidation state.
Origin
From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt”), + -ite.