common salt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common salt
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Dr. Salk tested many, picked Medium No. 199, containing 62 carefully balanced ingredients, from common salt to penicillin, which Toronto's Dr. Raymond C. Parker had developed for culturing cancer cells.
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
General Electric recently developed a tank that uses common salt to store for long periods heat collected by solar panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
And crystals of common salt have a : b : c = 1 : 1 : 1.
From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons
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