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Meaning of evaporite | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ɪˈvæp.əˌɹaɪt/

Definitions

The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates.

countable, uncountable

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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