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common salt

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common salt [¦käm·ən ′sȯlt]
(mineralogy)
(inorganic chemistry)


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The idea is to store volatile or otherwise unstable molecules within, say, an alkali halide such as common salt, says Josef Michl, now at the University of Texas at Austin.
In common salt, for instance, sodium and chloride ions sit at the corners of a cube, and these cubes stack neatly to fill out each salt crystal.
The American Soda research facility had to prove that low-cost solution mining methods, similar to those used to recover sulfur and common salt, were practical for the recovery of nahcolite," reported Mike Huffman, American Soda Senior Systems Engineer.
 
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