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  2. List of alchemical substances - Wikipedia

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    Salt/common salt – a mineral, sodium chloride, NaCl, formed by evaporating seawater (impure form). Salt of tartar – potassium carbonate; also called potash. Salt of hartshorn/sal volatile – ammonium carbonate formed by distilling bones and horns. Tin salt – hydrated stannous chloride; see also spiritus fumans, another chloride of tin.

  3. When salt was gold: The evolution of two commodities

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    An ounce of salt could once be traded for an ounce of gold. Now, the idea is laughable, with the cost of gold reaching over $2,000 per ounce while 26 ounces of salt is valued at just $1.

  4. Salt - Wikipedia

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    Rock salt (halite) In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as rock salt or halite.

  5. Cranberry glass - Wikipedia

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    Vintage cranberry glass bowl The beaker with lid made from Gold Ruby is attributed to Johann Kunckel. Cranberry glass or ' Gold Ruby ' glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass. Tin, in the form of stannous chloride, is sometimes added in tiny amounts as a reducing agent. The glass is used primarily in ...

  6. Colloidal gold - Wikipedia

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    This cranberry glass bowl was made by adding a gold salt (probably gold chloride) to molten glass. Used since ancient times as a method of staining glass, colloidal gold was used in the 4th-century Lycurgus Cup, which changes color depending on the location of light source. [12] [13]

  7. Gold glass - Wikipedia

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    Roman gold glass beads were made by using an inner tube or rod to which the gold leaf was stuck. A larger tube was slid over that and the beads crimped off. Easily transported and very attractive, Roman gold glass beads have been found as far outside the Empire as the Wari-Bateshwar ruins in Bangladesh, and sites in China, Korea, Thailand and ...

  8. Salt (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    sodium chromate Na 2 CrO 4 is made yellow by the chromate ion CrO 2− 4. potassium dichromate K 2 Cr 2 O 7 is made red-orange by the dichromate ion Cr 2 O 2− 7. cobalt(II) nitrate hexahydrate Co(NO 3) 2 ·6H 2 O is made red by the chromophore of hydrated cobalt(II) [Co(H 2 O) 6] 2+. copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate CuSO 4 ·5H 2 O is made ...

  9. Brilliant and Surprising Uses for Salt - AOL

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    Using this solution will keep your fridge just as clean, and it won't scratch your glass either. So while too much salt may be bad for your health, it doesn't mean it can't help you in other ways ...