pink salt
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Noun
- Any salt that is pink in color. Especially: The double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal.
- Any salt that is pink in color. Especially: Himalayan salt.
- Any salt that is pink in color. Especially: Alaea salt, an unrefined Hawaiian sea salt used in cooking or in rituals.
- Any salt that is pink in color. Especially: Curing salt, containing sodium nitrite and sodium chloride, used in the curing of meats.
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