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2007-01-27 21:10:05 · 7 answers · asked by angelique_091793 1 in Education & Reference Primary & Secondary Education

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Table salt is sodium chloride combined with iodine sources (for nutrition), stabilizers for the iodine, and anti-caking compounds to make it pour by preventing it from absorbing water from the air.

Potassium iodide
Potassium iodide is added as a nutrient, to prevent goiter, a thyroid gland problem caused by lack of iodine, and to prevent mental retardation associated with iodine deficiency. A project started by the Michigan State Medical Society in 1924 promoted the addition of iodine to table salt, and by the mid 1950's, three quarters of U.S. households used only iodized salt. Potassium iodide makes up 0.06% to 0.01% of table salt by weight. Sometimes cuprous iodide (iodide of copper) is used as the source of iodine.
Glucose (dextrose)
Glucose is a sugar (the main sugar in corn syrup), and is added in small amounts (0.04%) to salt to prevent the potassium iodide from breaking down into iodine, which evaporates away (sublimes). Other potassium iodide stabilizers include sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), sodium carbonate, and sodium thiosulfate.
Calcium silicate
Calcium silicate is an anti-caking additive. Salt is hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs water from the air. This water dissolves the salt, and the resulting salt water combines with the remaining salt, cementing the grains together into a solid mass. Calcium silicate absorbs moisture from the air better than salt, and does not dissolve in the water it absorbs. This protects the salt from caking, and ensures that it pours freely. Less that 0.5% is generally used, so in very humid weather, the salt may still become lumpy.
Other anti-caking ingredients include ferric ammonium citrate, silicon dioxide, sodium ferrocyanide, magnesium silicate, magnesium carbonate, propylene glycol, aluminum calcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate (also called sodium silicoaluminate), and calcium phosphate.

2007-01-27 21:14:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Table salt is basically NaCl which is Sodium Chloride. So it is composed of Sodium and Chlorine. Some has Iodine in it too as an additive.

2007-01-27 21:29:51 · answer #2 · answered by Pabs 4 · 0 0

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2016-12-17 04:20:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Sodium Chloride - NaCl

2007-01-27 21:15:00 · answer #4 · answered by hen 1 · 0 0

Primarily sodium chloride (NaCl), plus some iodide (mainly as NaI), and trace amounts of other impurities.

2007-01-27 21:17:09 · answer #5 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 0 0

salt and iodine

2007-01-27 21:13:53 · answer #6 · answered by booge 6 · 0 0

sodium

2007-01-27 21:17:49 · answer #7 · answered by Vimal 2 · 0 1

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