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Definition of "gem-salt" [gem-salt]

  • Rock-salt, the mineral halite. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "gem-salt" in a sentence
  • "They are scarcely ever covered by independent formations; and after having been long believed, in Europe, that gem-salt was exclusively peculiar to Alpine and transition limestone, it is now still more generally admitted, either from reasoning founded on analogy or from suppositions on the prolongation of the strata, that the true location of gem-salt is found in variegated sandstone (buntersandstein)."
  • "The gem-salt oscillates from zechstein to muschelkalk. (d)"
  • "Do these circumstances serve to support that ingenious system, according to which all the co-ordinate formations of gypsum, sulphur, bitumen and gem-salt (constantly anhydrous) result from floods passing across the crevices which have traversed the oxidated crust of our planet, and penetrating to the seat of volcanic action."