common salt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common salt
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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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.
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The panel on drugs used in dentistry found that mouthwashes are generally about as effective as a solution of common salt or even plain water.
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He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur.
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The body requires a certain amount of common salt.
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Herodotus, Strabo, and others mention common salt sent from about the same locality.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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