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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recent shortages ranged from wool for Continental Army uniforms to common salt.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur.
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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 Agricola, Georgius
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