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Definition of Common salt

1. Noun. A white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl).

2. Noun. White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food.

Definition of Common salt

1. Noun. Ordinary salt (sodium chloride) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Common salt

1. Table salt, NaCL. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Salt

common ragweed common rat common rats common raven common redstart common reed common ringlet common ringlets common room common rooms

common rorqual common rose mallow common roundworm common rush common sage common salt (current term) common scold common scoter common seal common sedge

common sedges common sense common shares common shiner common shrew common sickle pine common snapping turtle common snipe common snipes

Literary usage of Common salt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1880)
"We first experimented with common salt. We were obliged to conduct these experiments somewhat differently from those with chloride of potassium, ..."

2. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1892)
"And yet, in spite of all this, common salt is often found to do good ... Mode of Action of common salt. The explanation of this fact seems to be that the ..."

3. The Natural Laws of Husbandry by Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"We have every reason to believe that where the crops are increased by manuring with common salt alone, or when the favourable* influence of salts of ammonia ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1881)
"ACTION OF common salt IN WIRE-DRAWING. first, as regards the quantity of output; and, second, as regards economy of production—more especially the latter. ..."

5. Elements of the Art of Assaying Metals by Johann Andreas Cramer (1764)
"Of common salt, and the Methods by ... and different from the other common Salt, by its large, compact, ... But Sea-Salt, or the common Salt ufed in ..."

6. The Natural Laws of Husbandry by Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"common salt, NITRATE OF SODA, SALTS OF AMMONIA, GYPSUM, LIME. Effect of these substances as elements of food , their effect on the condition of the ..."

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