how is salt created?

Question

can we make salt from scratch or do we have to wait for nature. could we use it as fuel. it does react violently with a lot of stuff doesn't it?

Answer 1

There are many different kinds of salts. I suspect you are referring to NaCl (Sodium Cholride), or table salt. Such salt is created by drying of sea water to concentrate NaCl. Most table salts are harvested from salt domes and dry lake beds. You can make it from scratch by simply boiling down sea water. You will find it takes a lot of sea water to make a spoonful of salt.

It does not react violently with "a lot of stuff". It does react with certain metals (iron, copper, manganese, etc.) to form oxides like rust. But that is not a violent reaction, just a problematic one. It is not a fuel nor a fuel additive. Burning salt will yield yellow-green flame tints because of the sodium and chloride elements in NaCl.

Answer 2

There have been two main sources for salt: sea water and rock salt. Rock salt occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that result from the drying up of enclosed lakes, playas, and seas. Salt beds may be up to 350 m thick and underlie broad areas. In the United States and Canada extensive underground beds extend from the Appalachian basin of western New York through parts of Ontario and under much of the Michigan basin. Other deposits are in Ohio, Kansas, New Mexico, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan. In the United Kingdom underground beds are found in Cheshire and around Droitwich.

Salt is extracted from underground beds either by mining or by solution mining using water or brine. In solution mining the salt reaches the surface as brine, which is then turned into salt crystals by evaporation.

Answer 3

My name is Sea Salt (eskimo or inuit) translated into useable form is born in the deep blue sea. I suspect you are thinking of a way to become a salt trader, as many japanese salt trader's make salt from ocean, and test it's purity. Many country's of the world make salt by drying water (evaporation) and this was the main source of salt for most of asia, and that is why you are asking why don't people do it that simpler way. If you want to manufacture salt you can go to Mexico or south of there and you will find evaporated salt bed's everywhere, then purify it.

Answer 4

you can extract it from sea water, or the ground or you could burn pure sodium in the presence of chlorine gas

Answer 5

listen to the first two answerers. they are most accurate.