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
General Electric recently developed a tank that uses common salt to store for long periods heat collected by solar panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
De Quervain of Switzerland retold the well-known prophylactic use of iodine in common salt against goitre.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new process, announced by Chemical Engineers Arthur Warren Hixson and Alvan Howard Tenney of Columbia University: sulfur, through burning and catalysis, is changed to sulfur trioxide gas which is then infiltrated through common salt.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also gives the method of parting with antimony and sulphur, and by cementation with common salt.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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