Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Salt (Sodium cholride)

Raw materials
1. Seawater

Process
Salt is currently mass-produced by evaporation of seawater or brine from other sources, such as brine wells and salt lakes, and by mining rock salt, called halite.

Product
Salt

Used for
Cooking, manufacturing pulp and paper, setting dyes in textiles and fabric, producing soaps, detergents, and other bath products, major source of industrial chlorine and sodium hydroxide

Production facility
Mount Morris, New York

Export
Surfers Paradise, QLD

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