rock salt

NOUN
  1. naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride
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  • Sodium chloride (chemical formula NaCl), known as table salt, rock salt, sea salt, and the mineral halite, is an ionic compound consisting of cube-shaped crystals composed of the elements sodium and chlorine.
  • Mr. Barrow, in his travels through the southern parts, of the continent of Africa, discovered native nitre, which is probably similar ta the rock saltpetre of Kentucky. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
  • Rock salt mined in Cheshire was sent to the coast to be heated and dissolved in brine and then recrystallized.
  • Again, they discovered tiny, fluid-filled cavities within the rock salt, and within a small fraction of these cavities 6 out of 350 they discovered viable halobacteria that could be cultured in the laboratory after a time span of more than 200 million years.4 The Case for Mars
  • Some of the world's supply of salt is mined as rock salt.
  • A delicious pampootie fool can be made quite cheaply as follows: 3 lb. of pampooties, 8 oz. of angelica paregoric, 1 imperial pint of sloe gin, 1 gill of ammoniated quinine, 9 oz. of rock salt. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914
  • In one example, a scarlet ibis, mounted in a case on a broken piece of highly gorgeous china gaselier; in another, two puppies facing each other on velvet, a piece of rock salt in the middle, on which stood a lapwing, surrounded by foreign birds in all attitudes. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
  • Slightly moisten the rock salt with the water and spread on a tray large enough to take the oysters.
  • The potatoes were cut into wedges, sprinkled with rock salt and cayenne pepper, and cooked alongside the fish. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nestle the beetroot in the rock salt and scatter with thyme.
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