Industrial Salt

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Industrial Uses of Salt

A variety of materials, each of which is used in the production of many products, are produced by different treatments, or processing, of rock salt or salt brine. Following are a few of the most important:

LIQUID SODIUM - in more recent years, used as the coolant, or heat exchanger, an essential element in the nuclear process.

METALLIC SODIUM - used in making brass and bronze; sodium cyanide, in turn, used in making case-hardened steel and fumigating materials, in indigo and other synthetic dyes.

CHLORINE - used primarily in producing polymers that are used in manufacture of plastics, synthetic fibers and synthetic rubber; also used in crude oil refining, for making pesticides; in household bleach, water treatment and sewage treatment.

CAUSTIC SODA - an element used in making glass, rayon, polyester and other synthetic fibers, plastics, soaps and detergents.

SODIUM SULFATE - used extensively in the manufacture of pulp and paper, dyes and ceramic glazes.

SODIUM CARBONATE - used in manufacture of glass, pulp and paper, and rayon.

HYDROCHLORIC ACID - used in making synthetic rubber and in cleaning gas and oil wells.

SODIUM BICARBONATE - used in textile manufacturing, processing leather, making glass and neutralizing acids.

SODIUM NITRATE - an ingredient in fertilizers and explosives.