common salt

common salt

noun
salt1 (def. 1).

Origin:
1670–80
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common salt  
See salt.
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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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