| 单词 | salt mineral |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalt mineral a. A substance, known chemically as sodium chloride (NaCl), very abundant in nature both in solution and in crystalline form, and extensively prepared for use as a condiment, a preservative of animal food, and in various industrial processes. Salt for domestic use is manufactured from sea salt n. ( marine-salt, bay-salt n.), rock salt n. ( mineral salt, †salt mineral), and (now chiefly) from brine pumped up from rock-salt strata. Frequently called common salt. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > salt > [noun] saltc1000 common salta1398 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > halides > [noun] > halite group > sodium chloride salt-stonea1000 saltc1000 sal-gemc1325 salt gem(mea1400 rock salt1562 salt-rock1670 natrum muriaticum1850 gem-salt1852 halite1868 coal salt1877 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 76 Wiþ blæce, wyl eolonan on buteran, meng wiþ sote, sealt, teoro. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 344 Do haliges sealtes fela on. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1653 Forr witt. & skill iss wel inoh Þurrh salltess smacc bitacnedd. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 187/95 So þat þe salt scholde is woundene frete with þe brenninde fuyre. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvi. xciv Salte makeþ potage and oþer mete sauourye. 14.. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 245 Nad I ben babtyzyd in water and salt. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 57 Loke þy salte be sutille, whyte, fayre and drye. 1557 F. Seager Schoole of Vertue in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 344 Saulte with thy knyfe then reache and take. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 92 The best and most common of all Sauces is Salt. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 50 They boile Salt out of Salt-water. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 27 Fold up the Table-cloth with the Salt in it, then shake the Salt out into the Salt-cellar to serve next Day. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 146 Salt seems to be much more efficacious in destroying these animals [sc. lizards], than the knife. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1087 The rock is a mass of saccharoid and anhydrous gypsum, imbued with common salt. 1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 614/2 Regular strata of gypsum below, and regular layers of salt above. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 380 Beds of salt occur..in China, and many districts of North America. < as lemmas |
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