common salt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common salt
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Recent shortages ranged from wool for Continental Army uniforms to common salt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since common salt contains sodium, the prospect immediately arose of injecting harmless but radioactive saline solutions into the human body as a cancer remedy.
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
The marine acid is procured from common salt by the vitriolic acid, which unites with its base, the fossil alkali.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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