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How does road salt work in the winter?
Why is seawater so salty?
map of ocean salinity, 2011 Dead Sea salt; evaporation sodium chloride iodized salt Lake Urmia Born-Haber cycle
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Ultimate Foodie Quiz
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Waves, North Shore of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, United States.
Why Is the Ocean Salty?
winter ice melting salt on the ground, pattern as background
Why Does Salt Melt Ice?
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Saint Lucia Day. Young girl wears Lucia crown (tinsel halo) with candles. Holds Saint Lucia Day currant laced saffron buns (lussekatter or Lucia's cats). Observed December 13 honor virgin martyr Santa Lucia (St. Lucy). Luciadagen, Christmas, Sweden
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How does road salt work in the winter?
An explanation of how salt is used in the winter to melt ice on roadways.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Why is seawater so salty?
An explanation of why seawater is salty.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
The effects of too much salt in your diet
Learn about salt, including its health effects.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
How different solutions conduct electricity
Conducting electric current in a solution of electrolytes.
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Fascinating facts about crystals
Discover five facts about crystals.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn how lake water is spread in shallow basins to extract halite and other minerals from the Great Salt Lake
Extraction of salt from the waters of the Great Salt Lake, Utah.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
What is the purpose of electrolytes?
An overview of electrolytes, with an evaluation of health claims made on behalf of...
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
The chemistry of water
An overview of the chemical structure of water molecules.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Observe the drilling and blasting work in a potash mine in Germany
Visit a potash mine in Germany.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Learn about the underground beds of potash deposits in Germany
Learn about underground beds of potash in Germany.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Zniehf/Dreamstime.com

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Salt crystal magnified.
© Holcy—iStock/Getty Images
map of ocean salinity, 2011
The first map of ocean salinity taken by the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft, August–September...
GSFC—JPL-Caltech/NASA
Dead Sea
Salt deposits on the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea near Masada, Israel.
Z. Radovan, Jerusalem
salt; evaporation
Salt drying on red clay. The salt was evaporated from seawater in the town of Guérande...
© Photocomptoir/Fotolia
sodium chloride
Sodium chloride.
Henningklevjer
iodized salt
Iodized table salt (left) and non-iodized sea salt (right).
Toytoy
Lake Urmia
Salt crystals on the shore of Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran.
© Elena Odareeva—iStock/Getty Images
Born-Haber cycle
Figure 5: The Born-Haber cycle for the formation of solid sodium chloride from solid...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Figure 3: Crystal structures. There is an equal number of the two types...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Figure 1: Interrelationships of salt structures (see text)
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
ionic bond: sodium chloride, or table salt
Ionic bonding in sodium chloride. An atom of sodium (Na) donates one of its electrons...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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