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salt


In chemistry, a compound resulting from the combination of an acid and a base, which neutralize each other.	1
‡ Common table salt is sodium chloride.	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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