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Mineral sodium chloride
Answer for the clue "Mineral sodium chloride ", 9 letters:
rock salt
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS. rocc.] A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone . Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. --Sir W. Scott. (Geol.) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Improving rock salt distribution £350,000 saved by: Reducing number of suppliers from 75 to 11. ▪ Like eating two pounds of rock salt . ▪ Start doing weekly water changes of 10-20%, but don't add any more rock salt . ▪ There ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride [syn: halite ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mineralogy English) The mineral halite 2 Coarsely ground common salt
Usage examples of rock salt.
Even as the Knight came on, Tavi hurled a handful of rock salt he had taken from Bernardholt's smokehouse at the oncoming Knight, and then dove frantically to one side.
The wind off the sea was in her face now, like a fine mixture of ice and rock salt fired out of blunderbusses.
The footstool was full of rock salt, and this horrible dried-up shrivelled infant.
We found it excellent, white, and fine, but not so strong as the rock salt, or that made in Kentucky or the western parts of the U.
Seems to me I recall ol' Jack Ben was some hand with the rock salt when the boys come a-courtin' around.
Yes, it was something softer, definitely different, not just rock salt.
Moss didn't care to think about what the rock salt the road crews had put down was doing to his undercarriage and his fenders, and so, resolutely, he didn't.
Way out there on the frontiers of science, it hurts when a former classmate keeps firing rock salt into your butt.