单词 | mineral salt |
释义 | mineral saltn. 1. A salt obtained by mining, esp. rock salt. Also: salt (or a salt) occurring naturally as a mineral. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > salt > [noun] > types of salt salt-stonea1000 saltc1000 white saltOE bay-salt1465 rock salt1562 salt upon salt1580 mineral salt1600 sea salt1601 French salt1617 verge-salt1656 table salt1670 pigeon salt1679 salt-cakec1702 tamarisk salt1712 cat-salt1724 butter salt1749 basket-salt1753 Sunday salt1756 rock1807 stoved salt1808 solar salt1861 fishery-salt1883 gros sel1917 1600 J. Pory Gen. Descr. Afr. 11 in tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. Heere [sc. on Isle of Meroe] also you haue minerall salt. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. iii. 80 Minerall Salt (which in Poland they dig out of pits like great stones..). 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 614 The first Beings or Embrions of mineral salts are nothing but vapours. 1851 J. F. W. Johnston Notes N. Amer. I. vi. 185 As in so many other localities, the gypsum appears to be connected in its mode of deposition with that of mineral salt. 1877 Daily News 8 Oct. 2/6 Since the memorable discoveries of kainit and other mineral salts nearly twenty years ago at Stassfurth and Leopoldshall. 1917 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 80 205 Mineral salt can be found in Russia in quantities sufficient to supply the wants of the whole world for centuries. 1957 Man 57 178/2 Tibetan diet is..supplemented with buttered tea, turnips and mineral salt. 1991 MLN 106 852 In those human societies in which meat is less important in daily diet, it has been contended that the consumption of mineral salt may be higher. But there is in fact no good evidence to sustain that view. 2. A salt of an inorganic acid. ΚΠ 1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West Dec. 428 [Justus Liebig] has proved that pure vegetable mould..had in it but a secondary, and not an indispensable agency, and that the results assigned to it were produced by carbonic acid, water, and ammonia, or rather nitrogen, and certain mineral salts which the earth supplies. 1862 G. B. Emerson Man. Agric. xxi. 200 They should be each followed by a crop which needs less of silica but more of potash or some other mineral salts. 1886 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 382/1 Grapes contain the mineral salts in variable quantity, the proportion depending on the variety of grape. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants i. 12 By means of the root the plant..absorbs water which contains mineral salts in solution. 1948 L. E. H. Whitby Nurses' Handbk. Hygiene (ed. 8) vi. 146 The human body requires a diet containing these substances [sc. proteins, fats, and carbohydrates]..together with mineral salts, water, and..‘vitamins’. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans iii. 98 Deposits of mineral salts indicate that an area was once a hot, dry desert. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasmineral salt a. A substance, known chemically as sodium chloride (NaCl), very abundant in nature both in solution and in crystalline form, and extensively prepared for use as a condiment, a preservative of animal food, and in various industrial processes. Salt for domestic use is manufactured from sea salt n. ( marine-salt, bay-salt n.), rock salt n. ( mineral salt, †salt mineral), and (now chiefly) from brine pumped up from rock-salt strata. Frequently called common salt. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > salt > [noun] saltc1000 common salta1398 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > halides > [noun] > halite group > sodium chloride salt-stonea1000 saltc1000 sal-gemc1325 salt gem(mea1400 rock salt1562 salt-rock1670 natrum muriaticum1850 gem-salt1852 halite1868 coal salt1877 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 76 Wiþ blæce, wyl eolonan on buteran, meng wiþ sote, sealt, teoro. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 344 Do haliges sealtes fela on. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1653 Forr witt. & skill iss wel inoh Þurrh salltess smacc bitacnedd. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 187/95 So þat þe salt scholde is woundene frete with þe brenninde fuyre. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvi. xciv Salte makeþ potage and oþer mete sauourye. 14.. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 245 Nad I ben babtyzyd in water and salt. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 57 Loke þy salte be sutille, whyte, fayre and drye. 1557 F. Seager Schoole of Vertue in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 344 Saulte with thy knyfe then reache and take. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 92 The best and most common of all Sauces is Salt. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 50 They boile Salt out of Salt-water. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 27 Fold up the Table-cloth with the Salt in it, then shake the Salt out into the Salt-cellar to serve next Day. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 146 Salt seems to be much more efficacious in destroying these animals [sc. lizards], than the knife. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1087 The rock is a mass of saccharoid and anhydrous gypsum, imbued with common salt. 1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 614/2 Regular strata of gypsum below, and regular layers of salt above. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 380 Beds of salt occur..in China, and many districts of North America. < n.1600 as lemmas |
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