1. What importance have the following groups attached to salt? i. Romans: Romans considered “common salt” a right and used it for cooking in both plebian and patrician cuisine. Salt trade was a prominent way of making money and soldiers were often paid in salt. A tightly controlled monopoly on salt contributed to military funds. ii. Greek Philosophers: Plato describes salt as dear to the gods‚ and we can even see the importance attached to it in religious ceremonies‚ covenants‚ and magical charms
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Salt and Its Uses As we know‚ salt is the most useful resource found on earth. In Ancient Rome‚ salt was used as part of the salary to the soldiers. From this‚ we can see that salt was as valuable as gold in the past. In our daily life‚ besides making nutritious food more palatable‚ salt is very useful in making bakery products‚ canned and frozen foods. Salt is a good preservative that retards the growth of micro-organisms to make food storage possible for a long period of timie
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Bath Salts Bath salts effect human health in a dangerous way‚ because they have effects that no one ever thought about and they should be banned from the market. Many believe bath salts is to is to be used in one’s bath water after a long day. It will supposly help relax one after a difficult day. However‚ bath salts are dangerous and most people are not aware of it. Bath salts are basically used for drug now days there are not the bath salts people used in there bath water‚ this is the
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campaign of nonviolent protest against the British salt tax in colonial India which began with the Salt March to Dandi on March 12‚ 1930. It was the most significant organized challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation movement of 1920-22‚ and the Purna Swaraj declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress on December 31‚ 1929. Mahatma Gandhi led the Dandi march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi‚ Gujarat to produce salt without paying the tax‚ with growing numbers of Indians
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NOTES - SALT ANALYSIS S.No. | EXPERIMENT | OBSERVATION | INFERENCE | 1(a) | Noted the colour of the salt | BluePale greenGreenPale pinkColourless | May be Cu2+May be Fe2+May be Ni2+‚ Cu2+May be Mn2+Absence of Cu2+‚ Fe2+‚ Ni2+‚ Cu2+‚ Mn2+ | (b) | Noted the physical state of the salt | (i)Amorphous(ii)crystalline | May be CO32-May be Cl-‚ Br-‚ SO42-‚ NO3- | 2 | Action of heat:The given salt is heated in a dry test tube. | (i)Reddish brown vapours(ii)Crackling sound(iii)Yellow when salt and white
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Bath Salts Since synthetic drugs have become a common theme in the news I wanted to look more into “bath salts” otherwise known as synthetic cathinones. The questions I was pondering were: what exactly do these “bath salts” do‚ how is this latest development in drug abuse affecting the brain and how can you treat someone on these dangerous chemicals? I used Google Scholar to research my topic. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Minnesota+Bath+Salts&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C24&as_sdtp=
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separate salt‚ sand and iron filings from each other in a mixture‚ to figure out the percentage of each component in the original mixture? Background Research: In this Investigation‚ I will be separating sand‚ salt‚ iron fillings in a mixture and finding their percentages. Iron is a magnetic solid which is incapable of being dissolved in water. Salt is a non-magnetic solid which is capable of being dissolved in water. Sand is a non-magnetic solid which is incapable of being dissolved in water. I used
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“Morton Salt“ “No one knows Salt like we do”. Morton Salt generates a never-ending supply of new products in covering all possibilities where salt can be used and is not focusing on only one type of salt e.g. Culinary Salt. During over 160 year’s history‚ Morton Salt never stopped developing new salt products and finding new niche markets. Salt is not seen as a mundane product that is only used to salt e.g. food but even more as science. Morton Salt is presenting on his website how various salt can
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Effect of Temperature on Salt Diffusion Rates and it’s Relation to the Human Body Hypothesis: Ordinary table salt is known to dissolve easily in water. Dissolving or diffusion is the spreading of particles in another substance. This is seen when smoke from a chimney diffuses in the air around it‚ or when dropping coloring in water. When NaCl‚ sodium chloride‚ or otherwise known as ordinary table salt is combined with water the separate salt and water molecules will be attracted to each other
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products are gaseous. These gaseous products bubble from the electrolyte and are collected 2 NaCl + 2 H2O → 2 NaOH + H2 + Cl2 A liquid containing mobile ions (electrolyte) is produced by: Solvation or reaction of an ionic compound with a solvent (such as water) to produce mobile ions. An ionic compound is fused by heating An electrical potential is applied across a pair of electrodes immersed in the electrolyte. Each electrode attracts ions that are of the opposite charge. Positively charged ions (cations)
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