common salt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common salt
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life.
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
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 body requires a certain amount of common salt.
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Agricola himself points out that ingredients of "metallic origin" corrupt the gold and that brickdust and common salt are sufficient.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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