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Also Known As sodium chloride • table salt • common salt

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map of ocean salinity, 2011
Dead Sea
salt; evaporation
sodium chloride
iodized salt
Lake Urmia
Born-Haber cycle
Figure 3: Crystal structures. There is an equal number of the two types of ions in the unit cell of the (A) cesium chloride, (B) sodium chloride, and (D) zinc blende arrangements. The diamond arrangement is shown in (C). If both atoms are identical in (A), the structure is body-centred cubic.
Figure 1: Interrelationships of salt structures (see text)
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