How is salt made?

Question

Does it come from the ocean?

Answer 1

it's not made, it's extracted from the earth

Answer 2

Rock salt mining
This is an underground mining process in which the salt is physically dug out of the ground in an operation involving drilling, blasting and crushing the rock. The major percentage of this output is used for winter road maintenance (road ‘gritting’ or ‘salting’).

Solution mining and brine evaporation
This is the most common process for the production of industrial and edible salt in Northern Europe. Water is pumped into the underground rock salt deposits from above the ground to produce fully saturated brine, which is then pumped back to the surface.

Originally, salt was produced by boiling the brine in ‘open pans’, to evaporate off the water, leaving salt crystals. It is now evaporated under vacuum in huge evaporator vessels, to produce the familiar white salt. This salt can be used in industry, in catering and, of course, at the table.

Solar salt production

In hot countries, salt is produced by allowing the sun to evaporate sea water in shallow pools or ‘pans’. Because our mean temperatures are lower and the rainfall higher, there is no commercial solar salt production in the United Kingdom.

Answer 3

In theory, you could make familiar table salt by titrating HCl against NaOH (hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide) until the solution exactly balances 7.00 pH. At this point you can evaporate or boil off the fluid and pure sodium chloride (table salt) will remain.

Highly unrecommended as both reagents are highly toxic and if you don't get the process precisely right, you may injure or poison yourself.

Answer 4

Rock salt mining

Answer 5

comes from the earth and you can get sea salt to its a mineral. sea salt can be made buy letting sea water evaporate in pools meadatrainian sea salt is the best most other salts are the same but we all need them

Answer 6

I thinl salt is a natural thing that comes from the ground, I have heard of salt mines.

Answer 7

Its not made its mined like coal. There is also sea salt yes. Not sure how they obtain that.

Answer 8

you don't make salt it is a natural product.
yes it does

Answer 9

mainly from the earth and they also add chlorine to it .. and it is a little more complicated than that, too.

Answer 10

it isnt made. it comes from mines.