Evaporite
/ɪˈvæp.əˌɹaɪt/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater wordnet
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More examples"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."