kainit

An old trade name, from kainite.

kainit (countable and uncountable, plural kainits)

1. (archaic) Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

• “kainit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Aitkin, Nikita

Borrowed from French kaïnite.

kainit n (plural kainite)

1. kainite