common salt

American  

noun

1. salt.

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Etymology

Origin of common salt

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

Yes, says Dr. Dublin�in the same way as common salt, oxygen and water, which "can kill you if you get too much of them."

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 uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is nothing like common salt for the common cold, says Dr. Harry Adler of Elmira, N.Y.

From Time Magazine Archive

To this should be added common salt, which acts as a purgative and a tonic.

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