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common salt

NOUN
  1. white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
  2. a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl)

How To Use common salt In A Sentence

  • Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.
  • The scientific name for common salt is sodium chloride.
  • Or if we take some of the green acid of the copper, and make a liquid of it, and then pour this over common salt we are making what is known as muriatic acid. The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
  • The invention relates to a sterilizing acaricidal pesticide liquid using water as the base material, which also comprises lime, sulfur, edible alkali, washing powder and common salt.
  • A crystalloid, e.g. common salt, is characterized in that it passes in the dissolved state readily through membranes such as parchment paper or collodion films and also that it exhibits a rapid free diffusion. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 - Presentation Speech
  • The salt most used is common salt, sodium chloride, but saltpetre (which consists of potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate) has similar effects.
  • Fortunately, in most countries, lack of dietary iodine has been combated by iodination of common salt.
  • These shells are associated with much common salt, a little sulphate of lime (both probably left by the evaporation of the spray, as the land slowly rose), together with sulphate of soda and muriate of lime. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • Herbicides include a wide range of compounds, such as common salt, sulfates, and ammonium and potassium salts.
  • Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.
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