• table salt used to cure meat and fish by soaking them in brine, rubbing salt onto them, or injecting them with a salt solution. 

• table salt used to make pickles by soaking cucumbers in brine.

• rock salt is sprinkled on highways to melt ice.

• used in the chemical manufacture of chlorine and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) by electrolysis of brine solution.

• used as a universal flavour improver 

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