What is "pink salt"

Pink \Pink\, a. Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

Pink eye (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball.

Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal.

Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

n. (context chemistry dyeing English) The double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal.

Pink salt may refer to:

• Any salt that is pink in color
• Himalayan salt, a form of salt used in cooking or in bath products
• Alaea salt, an unrefined Hawaiian sea salt used in cooking or in rituals
• Prague Powder #1, a curing salt containing sodium nitrite and sodium chloride