"Rock salt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... crude oil, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... be forced to load it up for protection. But maybe rock salt will do instead of shot," said Cap'n Ira, still with soberness. "A feller has got a right to protect himself ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... most capable officer on the brigade staff. I had never met a man of such force and dignity who was so modestly affable. His new clerk dined with him that first day, at noon in his tent, alone. Hot biscuits! with butter! and rock salt. Fried bacon also—somewhat vivacious, but still bacon. When the tent began to fill with the smoke of his meerschaum pipe, and while his black boy cleared the table for us to resume writing, we talked of books. Here was joy! I vaunted my love for history, biography, the poets, ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... With mirrors of rock salt and of sylvine[21] there have been obtained, by taking an incandescent gas light (Auer) as source, radiations extending as far as 70 microns; and these last are the greatest wave-lengths observed in optical phenomena. These radiations are largely absorbed by the vapour of ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... such an inordinate desire for salt, especially the rock salt made out of salt water and ash lye, that the Manbo will submit sometimes to tyranny and to the most exorbitant rates in order to obtain it. This craving for salt will explain the general preference that is felt for salted food as against fresh meat. The small salted fish, peddled ...
— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan
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