common salt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common salt
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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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
There is nothing like common salt for the common cold, says Dr. Harry Adler of Elmira, N.Y.
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He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur.
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Why is common salt white and charcoal black?
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri
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