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
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
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
But, if heathy food is the staple provender, allow your sheep four or five hours of turnips in the twenty-four, permitting at the same time free access to common salt.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock
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