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Common salt   /kˈɑmən sɔlt/   Listen
Common salt

noun
1.
A white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl).  Synonym: sodium chloride.
2.
White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food.  Synonyms: salt, table salt.






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"Common salt" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was found that incandescent solids and liquids (including the carbon glowing in a white gas flame) give continuous spectra; gases, except under enormous pressure, give bright lines. If sodium or common salt be thrown on the colourless flame of a spirit lamp, it gives it a yellow colour, and its spectrum is a bright yellow line agreeing in position with line D of ...
— History of Astronomy • George Forbes

... Clyster.—A pint and a half of gruel or fat broth, a tablespoonful of castor oil, one of common salt, and a lump of butter; mix, to be injected slowly. A third of this quantity is ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... Red, being dissolv'd in Spirit of Vinegar, may be uniformly Praecipitated by Oyl of Tartar into White Powders. Thus Silver and Tin separately dissolv'd in Aqua Fortis, will the one Praecipitate it self, and the other be Praecipitated by common Salt-water into a White Calx, and so will Crude Lead and Quicksilver first dissolv'd likewise in Aqua Fortis. The like Calx will be afforded as I have try'd by a Solution of that shining Mineral Tinglass dissolv'd in Aqua Fortis, and Praecipitated out of it; ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle



Words linked to "Common salt" :   chlorine, atomic number 17, seawater, brine, saltwater, flavouring, seasoner, rock salt, flavorer, seasoning, flavourer, binary compound, cl, halite, flavoring



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