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Definition of Rock salt
1. Noun. Naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride.
Terms within: Atomic Number 11, Na, Sodium
Generic synonyms: Mineral, Common Salt, Sodium Chloride
Definition of Rock salt
1. Noun. (minerology) The mineral halite ¹
2. Noun. Coarsely ground common salt ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Salt
Literary usage of Rock salt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"to the salt mine or pit from whence the same was taken, to be rock salt not to
as shall be removed out of the warehouse belonging and adjoining 38 o. 3. c. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The purer rock-salt is often »imply ground for use, as we have seen to be ...
One great drawback to the use of even the purest rock-salt simply ground is ..."
3. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"rock salt. — rock salt, which is the most important source of commercial salt,
... Less often, the rock salt is found in domelike masses in stratified rocks ..."
4. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"rock salt. — rock salt, which is the most important source of commercial salt,
... Less often, the rock salt is found in domelike masses in stratified rocks ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"May the salt domes be due to a buckling and flowage of one or more beds of rock
salt lying at great depth, as has been suspected concerning European salt ..."
6. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"The inexhaustible rock salt mass of Cardona, which gives rise to brine springs,
is 1500 fuel •bove the sea, composing a mass of salt three miles in ..."
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