the word salt has no relationship to sugar, it was quibbling with Dr Bill about "organic compound made in more tons than any other"--- but reading it again, i see the modifer clearly, sugar, a hydo-carbon is part of organic chemistry, and salt (sodium chloride, NaCl) is not organic chemistry, just plain old chemisty.. (is chemistry still treated as organic/non organic? i learned about half my chemistry from Isaac Asimov's World of Carbon and World of Nitrogen.

my word dictionary only takes the word salt, back to 12C. greek, Hal meaning sea/salt. and we touched on the idea that the gauls, as people, were named for Hal (salt).How about you Dr bill, what do you have on salt?

Halite-- hangs on in english as rock salt.


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