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Rock Salt

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ANOTHER NAME FOR ROCK SALT

  • Rock salt is a mineral form of sodium chloride.
  • It's referred to as "halite".
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COLOR OF ROCK SALT

  • The color of rock salt is usually colorless.
  • Natural occurrences are often discolored

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TABLE SALT

  • Table salt is largely rock salt that has been crushed and purified.
  • There is little real chemical difference as they are both sodium chloride.

WHERE IS ROCK SALT MINED IN U.S.

  • In the United States, an underground bed extends from the
  • Appalachian basin of western new York through parts of Ontario
  • And to under much of the Michigan basin.

WHERE ARE OTHER PLACES ROCK SALT IS FOUND

  • It is found In other places such as dry lake beds, inland marginal seas,
  • Enclosed bays, estuaries, and in large bodies of water. It was first discovered
  • In Winford in Cheshire in the year 1844.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ICE CREAM

  • It all ties in together because it order to make ice cream you obviously need
  • Rock salt. And rock salt is a mineral found within the earth and it lets us learn
  • About that specific mineral and what it can do.

INGREDIENTS FOR MAKING ICE CREAM

  • Ice, one cup of half and half, half
  • A cup of rock salt, two table spoons of sugar, half a teaspoon of vanilla extract,
  • One pint size ziplock bag and one gallon size ziplock bag.

STEPS ON HOW TO MAKE ICE CREAM

  • Combine the sugar, half and half,
  • And vanilla in a pint size bag and seal it tightly.

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Place the rock salt and ice in a gallon bag, then seal the smaller
  • Bag inside of it. Seal the larger bag then shake until the ,mixture hardens.
  • This will take about five minutes.

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Take the smaller bag out of the larger one and add in anything else
  • That you might want.