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salt

We called it table salt to differentiate it from other salts, which are of many types, including what we use in our normal lives, such as sodium carbonate, which is washing soda, and such as sodium bicarbonate, which is used by those who have difficulty digesting it due to the excess acid in their stomach. Among them is magnesium sulphate, which is the Epsom salt that we take as a laxative. There are many types of salts that we use in industry and for fertilizing the land in agriculture.

- The world of inanimate objects, salts:

The truth is that the non-living world, the inorganic world, the mineral world, the surface of the Earth, generally consists of salts. Salts are the product of marriage between two other large types of substances, which are acids, bases and alkalis.

One of the most famous salts is sodium carbonate, which is the result of a mixture or neutralization between an acid, which is carbonic acid (carbon dioxide in water), and a base, which is caustic soda. It cauterizes the hand, or fries it, and for this reason it is called frying or alkali.

Copper sulphate is a salt produced by neutralizing sulfuric acid, which is a sulfur-based acid, and a copper-based base.

Epsom salt is a salt produced from the neutralization of sulfuric acid and a magnesium-based base.

It is immediately clear from this that some of the elements are suitable as a basis for acid, and some of them are suitable as a basis for a base.

- Earth rocks salts:

The white stone, the limestone, with which it is built, is nothing but calcium carbonate. So it is salt.

Rocks, sodium silates, potassium, magnesium, aluminum, and many other minerals. As for wires, its element is silica, and its oxide is sand spread on the surface of the Earth. It represents the acidic side in these salts, in these minerals, whether igneous such as granite or basalt, or metamorphic or otherwise.

- Table salt: acid + alkali:

Table salt is salt, its acid is chloric acid and its basis is chlorine, and its base is caustic soda and its basis is sodium. Table salt is sodium chloride.

Nature gave us table salt in such a neutral way. We knew what it was equivalent to, so we took it back in industry to its origins, so we extracted chloro-drick acid from it, which is one of the most famous acids, and we extracted caustic soda from it, which is the most famous alkali in industry at all.

- Table salt, a little is very dangerous:

Among the things of this world is something that is small in size or weight but is very dangerous. One of these things is table salt. You sit at the table, taste your food, and then quickly extend your hand to the salt to fix it if it does not have enough salt. Salt is the thing whose presence or absence is the difference between food that is in the esophagus and food that has no taste. Food after which you praise God, or food that you curse Satan in.

- Salt in the blood:

This sense of taste is not in vain. It is one of the body's needs, and it is enough to know that table salt is an essential component of your blood for what I am saying to convince you. You may sweat a lot at work, and your sweat increases as the heat becomes harsh in the hottest parts of the country. When you lose sweat, you also lose salt, because it comes out with sweat. If the amount coming out is too much, then there is illness that will come to you suddenly. It is not healthy for you to drink water. In fact, the water then increases the percentage of salt in your blood, and this is bad. Rather, it increases your health if you eat salt. In hot countries, pharmacies have ready-made salt tablets to avoid this situation when it occurs.

Iron and steel workers, who work in front of large, hot furnaces in Europe, take salt to replace what they lost.

- Salt in the stomach:

The body's need for salt becomes clear when digestion is mentioned. One of the components of the digestive fluid that the stomach pours into food to digest it is an acid, which is chloric acid, which is salt acid, from which the body extracts it.

And like a human being an animal. He asks for salt, and if he does not find enough of it, he asks for it by licking it wherever he finds it. There are some countries where salt is scattered in the pastures, in small pieces, for the livestock to eat as they eat.

- Salt and modern medicine:

Among the modern opinions are those who say that there is enough salt in the meat and vegetables that a person eats, of course, and that there is no need for salt to be added when cooking.
I may believe in what they say, but I do not satisfy him in action. Salt, salt, and in the opinion of these doctors, forgiveness.

Salt is an essential substance in people's lives:

Salt has been established in people's customs since ancient times. It is funny that it is mentioned that the employee’s salary, or work wage, (salary), is in English and in French salary, or salaire. She searches for its origin and learns that it is from (Saal). “Sal” means salt in Latin, then you find that salir is an amount of money that a Roman soldier used as a salary to buy salt. Then call each salary.

Salt is a great trade.

The ancients' trade in salt was a great trade. In Italy, one of its most important roads was known as the Salt Road, because salt was carried to the markets there. The caravan route in the Sahara desert was a salt road.

- Salt is a currency:

Due to the scarcity of salt, it was used as a currency for people to deal with wherever it was available. This happened in Central Asia in Tibet. It occurred in central Africa. They make it into discs, so it takes the place of dirhams and dinars.

Among the ancients, a person who ate something would share salt with his friend, and this would be a sign of lasting friendship and loyalty.

Salt was one of the causes of revolutions:

In history, disputes arose over salt, and there were clashes over it, and the French Revolution arose for many reasons, not the least of which was the taxes that governments imposed on salt. In India, the famous “Indian Mutiny” occurred in 1857 due to the British monopoly on salt. It was like
Who invented water and bread?

Salt was dear in those ancient times. More glory in some countries than others.