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evaporites

evaporites is the plural of evaporite.

Meaning of evaporite

Noun

evaporite (countable and uncountable, plural evaporites)

  1. The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates.
    • Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 129

Questions about evaporites

What is evaporites the plural of?
Evaporites is the plural of evaporite.

Words near evaporites in the dictionary

  1. evaporatory
  2. evaporimeter
  3. evaporimeters
  4. evaporimetry
  5. evaporite
  6. evaporites
  7. evaporitic
  8. evaporization
  9. evaporizations
  10. evaporize
  11. evaporized

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