Salt/Blog8
In this blog we will discuss salt, it may seem like it’s another minor contributor to our society but it is actually very significantly. There are 12 version of salt and we use them all very differently some we use in industry and some we use in food. The most common one we know is table salt which is a naturally occurring mineral that all animals need. Salt is very crucial to our health. The sodium in salt is also essential for nerve function, regulation of fluids in or body, and regulation of our body’s control of blood pressure and volume.
Some other uses for salt are for preservative for things like meat packing, sausage making, or fish curing. They can also use salt as a seasoning whenever they package the meats off. In the chemical industry they use salt to manufacture baking soda, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, and other chemicals. Salt is very abundant in our society and our ecosystem, it would surprise how much is in our everyday life. Here’s an example of one we all know or have heard of, The Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is 394 square miles and contains 12,650,000,000 tons of salt which is why you can float so easily when you go to take a dip in its waters.
Here are a few links for more uses of the different kinds of salts if you would like to be more informed
https://www.wideopeneats.com/12-different-types-salt-use/
https://www.britannica.com/science/salt
This is a great article for people to learn about salt. Salt is such a thing in our world that doesn't appear to have very many uses, but it is actually much more important than a lot of people see. It has many different uses in the world that you talk about in your article, and that makes It diverse.
ReplyDeleteIt’s cool to learn about all the different uses of salt. The average person probably doesn’t know all of this so it’s definitely a cool thing to learn. I also wanna take a trip to the Dead Sea and float in it.
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