sodium chloride, halite, sodium chloride - all names for the same substance - all the usual table salt.Scope of its vast: from medicine to food and chemical industries.
salt in cooking
This salt, as opposed to artificial iodized, contains a large amount of useful minerals and has no expiration date.That it should be used for the preparation of domestic preparations.
Perhaps still the most extraordinary way to use salt in cooking - use it as a liquid.Layers of Himalayan salt is replaced by kitchens cutting boards, dishes and even a frying pan.Now many restaurants set instead of traditional hobs salt plates.
sodium chloride medicine
itself salt is a good folk remedy for prevention of colds, and treatment of the disease already started.
solution of sodium chloride (saline) is widely known in medical practice.It is used to solubilize various drugs.As an independent means of sodium chloride is used to combat dehydration.It also serves to treatment of skin lesions.
very popular halotherapy - salt cave.This whole area of treatment and prevention of diseases of the respiratory tract and skin in children and adults.During the patient's stay in a specially equipped room air is filled haloaerosol (sodium chloride aerosol), which are the main active ingredient.
use of salt in the utilities
in winter to combat ice on roads used the so-called sodium chloride technical, mixed with sand or fine gravel.Thanks to salt, snow melts at temperatures below freezing, and the sand provides traction soles of shoes and wheels of vehicles on the road.
Despite the fact that the salt spoils the shoes, especially leather, and is a cause of corrosion of car bodies, it still has not replaced by other reagents due to its low cost.Recently, in the sand-salt mixture began to add calcium chloride - the same result, but the resulting composition is less harmful to the environment.
sodium chloride as a deicing agent is used not only in Russia.All of the "charm" of its application experienced by the people of Ukraine, Belarus, China, the United States.In Sweden, a mixture of salt with granite chips.
Other applications of sodium chloride
Sol is part of a special solution that was used in the final stage of the silver plating of metals (base metals like coating brass or copper with a thin layer of silver).This technique is used to create jewelry, cutlery, as well as for the production of electrical connectors.
in refrigeration aqueous solution of sodium chloride is one of the most common heat transfer fluids.
very popular, especially among supporters of a healthy lifestyle, salt lamps, ceiling lamps that are turned from halite.When enabled, they work as air ionizers.For the interior design is used not only lamps or candlesticks from the salt.Now the demand for bricks and tiles halite as a building material for walls, including a residential area.
