# Salt and the salt industry Author: Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 Genre: Category: History - Other Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69590 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Salt+and+the+salt+industry+Calvert&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary “Salt” was the name which was given in the first place to the residue left by the evaporation of sea-water, but the designation was subsequently employed to include the other substances held in solution in the sea, and, at a still later period, the name was still further extended by chemists to cover all the combinations of a base and an acid which are now classed as “salts.” Sodium, or sodic chloride Na Cl, which is now distinguished as “common salt,” is an example of the simplest type of chemical salt, its molecule consisting of one atom of the metal sodium combined with one atom of the gas chlorine, both sodium and chlorine being mono-valent elements, _i.e._, one atom of each being abl... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter XII of this work, the preparation of which occupied Agricola](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/salt-and-the-salt-industry-69590/chapters/1/index.md)