Table salt
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Table salt, often called "cooking salt" or just "salt" is widely used in cooking to add flavor to food.
It is a compound (mixture) of two chemical elements, sodium (symbol: Na) and chlorine (Cl). This is why it has the chemical name "sodium chloride" (symbol: NaCl).
In history, salt was very expensive, and was used to preserve food from going bad. It was even used as money in some places.
Sodium chloride is also special because its crystals are almost perfect cubes.
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[change] See also
- Iodised salt can prevent disease of the thyroid gland, which can occur in iodine-poor parts of the world.
