common salt
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Common salt
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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common salt
mineral substance of great importance. The mineral form halite, or rock salt, is sometimes called common salt to distinguish it from a class of chemical compounds called salts
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Caprock consists of gypsum and shale, from which common salt has been leached by ground water, covered by alluvium.
As though thought were common salt in indefinite solution it must enter a new phase subject to new laws.
Sodium chloride--common salt--is but one of many minerals extracted from the lake.
Ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate and common salt were applied at equal salt equivalents to individual tall larkspur plants.
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