Take a quarter of a peck of smelts, and put them into a jar, and beat very fine half an ounce of nutmegs, and the same quantity of saltpetre and of pepper, a quarter of an ounce of mace, and a quarter of a pound of common salt.
Use two pounds of common salt; one pound of bay salt; one pound of brown sugar; two ounces of saltpetre; two ounces of ground black pepper.
For sixty pounds' weight of pork take three pounds of common salt, half a pound of saltpetre, and half a pound of brown sugar.
To four gallons of water put a sufficient quantity of common salt; when quite dissolved, to bear an egg, four ounces of saltpetre, two ounces of bay salt, and half a pound of coarse sugar.
This may best be prevented by using a layer of common salt as a cover to the charge.
This action may be moderated by mixing the nitre with carbonate of soda, common salt, or some other inert body.
The nitrate deposits occur largely around and just above slight basin-like depressions in the desert which contain an abundance of common salt.
Further evaporation of the waters may result in the deposition of common salt.
Gypsum deposits, like deposits of common salt, occur in beds which are the result of evaporation of salt water.
This subject is further treated in the discussion of common salt beds (pp.
These shells are associated with much common salt, a little sulphate of lime (both probably left by the evaporation of the spray, as the land slowly rose), together with sulphate of soda and muriate of lime.
The mine consists of a hard stratum, between two and three feet thick, of the nitrate mingled with a little of the sulphate of soda and a good deal of common salt.
The appearance of the country was remarkable, from being covered by a thick crust of common salt, and of a stratified saliferous alluvium, which seems to have been deposited as the land slowly rose above the level of the sea.
Most indelible inks contain nitrate of silver, the stain of which may be removed by first soaking in a solution of common salt, and afterward washing with ammonia.
Allow three-fourths of a pound of sugar to the gallon, the whites of six eggs, well beaten, a handful of common salt.
A pint and a half of gruel or fat broth, a tablespoonful of castor oil, one of common salt, and a lump of butter; mix, to be injected slowly.
Dr Mattison recommends the administration of the iron to be immediately followed by a teaspoonful or more of common salt.
In taking two grammes of silver, and precipitating only 1/4 by common salt, the precipitate would be, with respect to the chloride of silver, as if it amounted to four thousandths.
Another sort of pearl-powder is prepared by adding a very dilute solution of common salt to the above nitric solution of bismuth, whereby a pulverulent sub-chloride of the metal is obtained in a light flocculent form.
It consists in preparing the silk with a species of white beans, smaller than the Turkey beans, with some wheat flour, common salt, and water.
The direct colours are as a rule dyed in a soap-bath with addition of phosphate of soda, Glauber's salt or common salt and a little soda.
No advantage is gained by adding to the dye-bath such substances as common salt or Glauber's salt.
Defn: Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt.
Defn: Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.
Defn: Prepared with chloride of silver through the agency of common salt.
It is made in great quantities in the soda process, by the action of sulphuric acid on common salt.
A quantity of common salt is then added to the boiling mixture, until the soap loses its thready character, and drops from the spatula in short thick lumps.
A piece of litmus paper moistened in solution of common salt or sulphate of soda, was quickly reddened at p.
A zinc positive electrode, in sulphate of soda or solution of common salt, gave the same constancy of operation.
It may seem curious to the reader that we should care to discuss a subject seemingly so simple as common salt.
It is curious to note that a substance so useful and so harmless as common salt should be made out of two such refractory and dangerous elements as chlorine and sodium.
Common salt, let me remind you, is sodium and chlorine combined.
In another chapter reference is made to the production of caustic soda from a solution of common salt by electrolysis.
Common salt is a combination of the metal sodium and the gas chlorine.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common salt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
