Wiktionary
n. Ordinary salt (sodium chloride)
WordNet
n. a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl) [syn: sodium chloride]
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food [syn: salt, table salt]
Usage examples of "common salt".
Urine contains about 4 per cent solids - urea, common salt, phosphates, sulphates, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, uric acid, ammonia etc.
Kelp-burning as a source of iodine is a dead industry, owing to a cheaper process of obtaining it from the mother-liquors obtained in the purification of Chile saltpetre, and the use of kelp - an impure carbonate of soda, containing sulphate and chloride of sodium and a little charcoal - as a source of alkalies for soap and glass manufacture has been rendered obsolete by the modern process of obtaining carbonate of soda cheaply from common salt.
Under the name of Dulcinol, a mixture of Manna and common salt has been recommended by Steinberg in 1906 as a sweetening agent in diabetes, the dose 1/2 to 1 OZ.
Injection for worms (Ascarides): 1/2 drachm Aloes powder, 1 drachm common salt, 1/2 drachm Slippery Elm powder (fine).
On the introduction of Le Blanc's process of obtaining soda from common salt, the importance of Barilla as an article of commerce ceased.
It was something I created using the new electrolysis equipment, 'The Salt of the Ethereal Essence of Common Salt and Ash.
Alum and zinc sulphate was what the old boy in my medical school had preferred but I'd never come across anything better than sodium chloride-common salt.
The Chamcos had also told them that common salt neutralized the kill-gas completely.