TABLE SALT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does table salt mean? 

• TABLE SALT (noun)
  The noun TABLE SALT has 1 sense:

1. white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

  Familiarity information: TABLE SALT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TABLE SALT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

common salt; salt; table salt

Hypernyms ("table salt" is a kind of...):

flavorer; flavoring; flavourer; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning (something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts)

 Context examples 

That equals about 1 teaspoon of table salt a day.

(Dietary Sodium, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Chemical abbreviation for sodium chloride (table salt).

(NaCl, NCI Dictionary)

Examples of compounds include water (H2O), which is made from the elements hydrogen and oxygen, and table salt (NaCl), which is made from the elements sodium and chloride.

(Compound, NCI Dictionary)

But the Sutton Island salts are different: For one thing, they're mineral salts, not table salt.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)

It may seem strange that salt can make the ocean denser, but you can see for yourself how this works by adding plain old table salt to a glass of water.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

"We also found they offset the harmful effects of sodium, mostly taken as table salt, on blood pressure."

(Micronutrients can counter lead effects in blood pressure, SciDev.Net)

Using a visible-light spectral analysis, planetary scientists at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have discovered that the yellow color visible on portions of the surface of Europa is actually sodium chloride, a compound known on Earth as table salt, which is also the principal component of sea salt.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

In order to generate electricity, the yarns must be either submerged in or coated with an ionically conducting material, or electrolyte, which can be as simple as a mixture of ordinary table salt and water.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Table salt is made up of the elements sodium and chlorine - the technical name for salt is sodium chloride.

(Dietary Sodium, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)