common salt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common salt
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Sodium and chloride are the two main charged components of common salt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Dr. Salk tested many, picked Medium No. 199, containing 62 carefully balanced ingredients, from common salt to penicillin, which Toronto's Dr. Raymond C. Parker had developed for culturing cancer cells.
From Time Magazine Archive
He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since common salt contains sodium, the prospect immediately arose of injecting harmless but radioactive saline solutions into the human body as a cancer remedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Agricola himself points out that ingredients of "metallic origin" corrupt the gold and that brickdust and common salt are sufficient.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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