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  2. Spilling salt - Wikipedia

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    Salt is believed to ward off evil spirits in Mahayana Buddhist tradition, and after a funeral, salt is thrown over the left shoulder to prevent evil spirits from entering the house. [19] In Shinto, salt ritually purifies locations and people and piles of salt are placed in dishes by the entrance of businesses to ward off evil and attract ...

  3. Smelling salts - Wikipedia

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    In the 17th century, the distillation of an ammonia solution from shavings of harts' (deer) horns and hooves led to the alternative name for smelling salts as spirit or salt of hartshorn. [ 1 ] They were widely used in Victorian Britain to revive fainting women, and in some areas, constables would carry a container of them for that purpose. [ 10 ]

  4. Salt mining - Wikipedia

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    Diorama of an underground salt mine in Germany. Inside Salina Veche, in Slănic, Prahova, Romania.The railing (lower middle) gives the viewer an idea of scale. Before the advent of the modern internal combustion engine and earth-moving equipment, mining salt was one of the most expensive and dangerous of operations because of rapid dehydration caused by constant contact with the salt (both in ...

  5. Vial - Wikipedia

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    Vial of vaccine and syringe Examples of modern flat-bottomed plastic vials Sterile single-use vial of eye drops. A vial (also known as a phial or flacon) is a small glass or plastic vessel or bottle, often used to store medication in the form of liquids, powders, or capsules.

  6. Nickel(II) sulfate - Wikipedia

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    The salt is usually obtained as a by-product of copper refining.It can also be produced by dissolution of nickel metal or nickel oxides in sulfuric acid. Aqueous solutions of nickel sulfate react with sodium carbonate to precipitate nickel carbonate, a precursor to nickel-based catalysts and pigments. [6]

  7. Sodium sulfate - Wikipedia

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    The most important chemical sodium sulfate production is during hydrochloric acid production, either from sodium chloride (salt) and sulfuric acid, in the Mannheim process, or from sulfur dioxide in the Hargreaves process. [21] The resulting sodium sulfate from these processes is known as salt cake. Mannheim: 2 NaCl + H 2 SO 4 → 2 HCl + Na 2 SO 4

  8. Vitriol - Wikipedia

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    A Many websites state that black vitriol "is a mixture of iron sulfate and iron sulfite", but none give a reference of any sort. The book, Chemistry, Inorganic & Organic, with Experiments, by Bloxam [4] is a published, reliable reference for the composition of black vitriol, and it states on page 513, "The formula of black vitriol may be written [CuMgFeMnCoNi]SO 4 ·7H 2 O, the six isomorphous ...

  9. Seven bowls - Wikipedia

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    The seven bowls (Greek: φιάλας, phialas (acc. pl.), nom. sing. φιάλη, phialē; also translated as cups or vials) are a set of plagues mentioned in Revelation 16. [1] They are recorded as apocalyptic events that were seen in the vision of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, by John of Patmos. Seven angels are given seven bowls of God's ...