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Rock salt that proves the ocean used to be somewhere else.
means The mineral form of sodium chloride — common salt as it occurs naturally in crystallized rock deposits.
from From Greek 'hals,' meaning salt, plus the mineral suffix '-ite.' The same root 'hals' surfaces in words like 'halogen' (literally 'salt-producer') and 'halibut.' The '-ite' ending was a 19th-century mineralogical convention for naming rocks and minerals, so 'halite' was essentially coined as a formal scientific label meaning simply 'the salt mineral.'
- other name
- just table salt, mined instead of evaporated
- formation
- ancient seas evaporated, leaving thick salt beds behind
- crystal habit
- grows in perfect cubes, no exceptions
- industrial use
- melts road ice before salting your fries