rock salt
Noun
Meaning
naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride
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Europium and ytterbium form salt-like monoxides, EuO and YbO, which have a rock salt structure.
In mining sector, Pakistan’s highest extraction of principal minerals include marble, limestone, rock salt and gypsum.
In 1859 rock salt deposits were discovered at Middlesbrough by Henry Bolckow and Vaughan while boring for water at a depth of 1,206 feet and this led to the move to Teesside of the heavy chemical industry.
She fires rock salt and bacon rind at a crow during the "Happy Valley" episode, and again at the back of an armored truck in which Milburn Drysdale was taking refuge.
Ice and dirty rock salt grinding away with a terrible sound, and this big scary motor ceaselessly running.
Himalayan pink rock salt, just let it melt under the tongue, it’s an elegant soft taste that enters the chemistry with a subtle infusion of prehistoric memory and the numinous calm of surrender and absorption.