rock salt

Summary

rock salt ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• rock salt's image is recorded as Rock salt (halitite) (Billianwala Salt Member, Salt Range Formation, Ediacaran to Lower Cambrian; Khewra Salt Mine, Salt Range, Pakistan) 11 (33275221442).jpg^[2].
• rock salt's made from material is recorded as halite^[3].
• rock salt's made from material is recorded as evaporite^[4].
• rock salt's GND ID is recorded as 4137467-8^[5].
• rock salt's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85114692^[6].
• rock salt's subclass of is recorded as evaporite^[7].
• rock salt's subclass of is recorded as sedimentary rock^[8].
• rock salt's subclass of is recorded as mineral resource^[9].
• rock salt's Commons category is recorded as Rock salt^[10].
• rock salt's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300386505^[11].
• rock salt's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/122k5lcg^[12].
• rock salt's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007541222605171^[13].
• rock salt's Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID is recorded as materias/1181484^[14].
• rock salt's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as kamennaia-sol-348d00^[15].
• rock salt's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 12173^[16].
• rock salt's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/554d9fe0-06d1-4907-9635-38a40e1b6656^[17].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for rock salt include halite^[18], a mineral species^[19] and salammoniac^[20], a mineral species^[21].

Why It Matters

rock salt ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[22] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[23]

Entities named for it include halite^[18], a mineral species^[19] and salammoniac^[20], a mineral species^[21].