simple salt

American  

[sim-puhl sawlt] / ˈsɪm pəl ˈsɔlt /

noun

1. Chemistry. a salt formed by the neutralizing effect of an acid reacting with a base, a prime example of which is sodium chloride (NaCl), or common table salt.

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simple salt Scientific  

1. A salt in which no hydrogen or hydroxyl (OH) ion is replaced by a metallic ion. Sodium chloride (NaCl) is a simple salt.

2. Compare complex salt double salt

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Example Sentences

It requires a quite simple salt -- zinc chloride -- which dissolves in water.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

After discovering that he could stimulate asexual reproduction by treating unfertilized sea urchin eggs with simple salt solutions, he became convinced that nature's way of doing things with living matter is not the only way.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

“When we make our bacon, we don’t use nitrates — just a simple salt cure.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2015

Quick treatment with simple salt and sugar fluids reduces the disease's mortality rate to less than one percent.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2011

The palate accustomed to Cayenne pepper can hardly be gratified by simple salt.

From The Prime Minister by Trollope, Anthony