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Rock salt   /rɑk sɔlt/   Listen
Rock salt

noun
1.
Naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride.  Synonym: halite.





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"Rock salt" Quotes from Famous Books



... country. Once proposed as the capital of the nation—and of the state of Kansas. Now a whistling station and a rock salt plant. ...
— If You Don't Write Fiction • Charles Phelps Cushing
... range is of special interest, including as it does at one end of the scale Cambrian beds of enormous antiquity and at the other rocks of Tertiary age. Embedded in the Cambrian strata there are great deposits of rock salt at Kheora, where the Mayo mine is situated. At Kalabagh the Salt Range reappears on the far side of the Indus. Here the salt comes to the surface, and its jagged pinnacles ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie


Words linked to "Rock salt" :   mineral, sodium, sodium chloride, Na, common salt, atomic number 11


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