potassium chloride: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	potash muriate

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A clear glass dish filled with a mound of fine, white potassium chloride powder.

A rough, irregular piece of sylvite ore with a crystalline texture, showing red, white, and gray coloration, displayed against a black background.

Aerial view of large, geometric potash evaporation ponds with blue water set among red desert terrain near the Colorado River and rocky mesas west of Moab, Utah.

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sylvite halide salt fluoride acid halide calomel