Salt Please Help?

Question

What is the difference between pool salt and other types of salt like salt from the ground salt from the sea and salt used at the table?

If there are any good sites please tell cause i'm having trouble finding any =) thanx xoxo

Answer 1

The Chemistry of Salt

Salt is a general term used in chemistry to describe a substance formed when an acid and base react.  Therefore there are many different kinds of salts, each made up of different elements.  The most common is Sodium Chloride (NaCl) containing the elements Sodium and chlorine.  There are also others like Potassium Chloride or magnesium sulphate.  See first website below

Salt in society

The term salt is most often used in society to describe sodium chloride.  The "different" salts that I think you are asking about in your question may have...

1.Different additives added to them - Like anti-caking agents

2. Have different size crystals - Rock salt has bigger crystals than table salt but is still sodium chloride

3. Be mixed with other salts or minerals to change it's flavour or uses. Eg iodized salt

There is a very detailed yahoo answer in the second web address below which may help as well.

Answer 2

im not sure so the answer im giving you in based on what i know of:

pool salt...... is chlorine (Cl2) its used basically to keep the water clean.

salt from the ground is not salt. its rocks. the water wore away the rocks over millions of years (like crashing waves) and then came the small little grains that taste salty.

salt table is a compound. (NaCl) sodium and chlorine.