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Salt: A Tasty Ceramic.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Tracy Lea Peshoff
Tracy Lea Peshoff*
Affiliation:
Division of Undergraduate Studies. The Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802
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Summary

This paper has described the importance of salt to our modern civilization, and has also discussed the role that salt has played in history. The structure and properties of salt have also been presented. Finally, the production of salt, by solar evaporation, and by underground mining has been described.

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