table salt
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table salt (countable and uncountable, plural table salts)
Sodium chloride, the salt most commonly used to season food at the table.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Another subtle event is the dissociation of sodium chloride (table salt) into sodium and chlorine ions.
Citric acid sold in a dry powdered form is commonly sold in markets and groceries as "sour salt", due to its physical resemblance to table salt.
Common examples of halides include halite (NaCl, table salt), sylvite (KCl), fluorite (CaF 2 ).
Ionic bonding commonly occurs in metal salts such as sodium chloride (table salt).
In contrast, table salt (NaCl) has a higher K sp and is, therefore, more soluble.