rock-salt

  • 121Salt glaze pottery — Pottery referred to as salt glazed or salted is created by adding common salt, sodium chloride, into the chamber of a hot kiln. Sodium acts as a flux and reacts with the silica in the clay body. A typical salt glaze piece has a glassine finish,… …

    Wikipedia

  • 122salt — 1 noun 1 (U) a natural white mineral that is added to food to make it taste better or to preserve it; sodium chloride technical: Try to reduce the amount of salt you use. | a pinch of salt | table salt (=very small grains of salt you use in… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 123Salt —    Used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa. 30:24, clean; in marg. of R.V. salted ). All meat offerings were seasoned with salt (Lev. 2:13). To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitality, to derive… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 124Salt glacier — A salt glacier is a flow of salt (typically halite) that is created when a rising diapir in a salt dome breaches the surface, much like toothpaste from a tube. Gravity causes the salt to flow like glaciers into adjacent valleys. Most of the flow… …

    Wikipedia

  • 125salt — n 1. sodium chloride, table salt, sea salt, rock salt. 2. salts Epsom salts, potassium salts, Chem., Pharm. Rochelle salt; purgative, cathartic, laxative. 3. wit, Attic wit, Attic salt, sarcasm, dry humor; spice, spiciness, pepper, piquancy,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 126Rock celtique — Le rock celtique est un genre de folk rock auquel on a incorporé des éléments de musique celtique. Il est né au début des années 1970. Drapeau panceltique des pays celtes Sommaire …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 127salt karst —    Areas in which karst landforms are developed upon halite or halite rich rock, which are generally small and limited to arid regions, are referred to as salt karst. Except in desert regions, dissolution of rock salt occurs in buried,… …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 128rock — {{11}}rock (n.) stone, O.E. rocc (in stanrocc stone rock or obelisk ), also from O.N.Fr. roque, from M.L. rocca (767), from V.L. *rocca, of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be from Celtic (Cf. Bret. roch). It seems to have been used in Middle… …

    Etymology dictionary