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common salt

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Word History and Origins

Origin of common salt1

First recorded in 1670–80
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Example Sentences

And phosphate of lime is also taken up by water containing carbonic acid, or even common salt in solution.

Two ounces of raw sugar must be mixed with an ounce of common salt and half a spoonful of saltpetre.

I use a moderate quantity of common salt on meat and potatoes, because there seems to be a natural craving for this.

These combined in precise proportions are supposed to evaporate in the baking, and leave common salt.

The marine acid is procured from common salt by the vitriolic acid, which unites with its base, the fossil alkali.

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