SALT has been a necessary additive to humanity's diet from the time people began cooking meat. The use of salt as a preservative and condiment became so important that it soon acquired a truly astonishing variety of symbolic meanings. The...

When referring to a salt, chemists usually mean something other than the seasoning, or sodium chloride (NaCl). In chemical terms, a salt is a compound that is the result of a reaction between a base and an acid, or neutralization. For example, NaCl can...

Salt is the common name for the substance sodium chloride (NaCl), which occurs in the form of transparent cubic crystals. Although salt is most familiar as a food supplement, less than 5% of the salt produced in the United States is used for that...

Salt is an edible mineral used as a flavor enhancer and preservative for food, but may also refer...

According to United States Salt Institute members, 2001 US dry salt sales were 25.8 Mt (28.4 million st), down from 27.2 Mt (30 million st) in 2000 (Table 1). Dry salt sales exclude salt in brine. Dry salt revenue increased to $1.18 billion during...

Did you know that salt used to be more valuable than gold? Cities were built where salt could be found easily. Wars were fought over it. Pioneers went in search of it. Why? Salt was so important because it was once the...

Sel Gris (aka Celtic Sea Salt): From coastal France, this "moist" unrefined salt gets its light-gray color from the clay and minerals in the salt flats. Historically produced by Celtic settlers in France's region of Guérande, Brittany, sel gris comes in coarse, fine, and...

Calling it an "unsafe investment," the Salt Lake County major said Monday that he won't support $30 million in taxes for a soccer stadium, a major blow to Real Salt Lake's plan to move to the suburbs.Mayor Peter Corroon's announcement came three days after the...