pink salt (English, noun)
expansion: pink salt
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glosses: 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.
glosses: Any salt that is pink in color. Especially:
Himalayan salt.
glosses: Any salt that is pink in color. Especially:
Alaea salt, an unrefined Hawaiian sea salt used in cooking or in rituals.
glosses: 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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