If salt is a cube-shaped crystal, why is Kosher salt pyramid-shaped?
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The cube shape of salt results from the lattice of the ions. If you put mechanical pressure on salt, then naturally it will break cube shaped.\n\nAny naturally broken cube shaped piece of salt might be macroscopically treated to other shapes, for example by washing with water or by melting and cooling in pyramidal vessels. This might bring more money when selling it as "Kosher-salt" but doesn't affect the cubic structure of the microscopic lattice.
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no a diamond is a type of rock.\n\na crystal is a type of glass.\n\nsimilar, but not quite the same.
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I'm not entirely sure to what it is you're referring.  Most Egyptian pyramids are built of stone blocks or slabs - roughly dressed on the interior and smoothed on the exterior.  Typically the stone is limestone for the exterior, with the occasional use of granite on lower courses.  Interior chambers in the pyramid itself or subterranean chambers were frequently lined with a different type of stone - granite was a popular choice.\n\nThe peaks of the larger (ie. royal) pyramids are now large flat spaces now that stone has been robbed out and the pyramidia (capstones) have been removed.  The capstones, from what we know from contemporary inscriptions and a few examples that have actually been found were essentially little pyramids in miniature, each face was inscribed with the name of the pyramid  - each royal pyramid was named, usually a name including the nomen and/or prenomen of the king for whom it was built.  Additional inscriptions usually concerned the sun god and/or were specific to the cardinal direction that face of the pyramid faced.\n\nIt is extraordinarily unlikely that Egyptian pyramids serve as radio receivers and even more unlikely that they were designed to do so.  They were tombs.
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kosher dills have garlic in them,  regular dills do not\n\nQ: What is a ‘kosher pickle?’\nA: The word "kosher" itself is derived from Hebrew and actually means religiously proper or acceptable.  Today, however, for many avid pickle lovers "kosher" has come to mean that garlic flavor has been added. Mt. Olive's pickles are both kosher and kosher: our kosher dills are not only garlic flavored, but they are also produced in accordance with kosher dietary laws. All of our products have the approval of the Jewish Orthodox Congregations of America and carry the widely recognized OU symbol.
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A crystal (most likely from a Greek word which means "ice") is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions.\n\nGenerally, crystals form when they undergo a process of solidification. Under ideal conditions, the result may be a single crystal, where all of the atoms in the solid fit into the same crystal structure. However, generally, many crystals form simultaneously during solidification, leading to a polycrystalline solid. For example, most metals encountered in everyday life are polycrystals. Crystals are often symmetrically intergrown to form crystal twins.\n\n\nWhich crystal structure the fluid will form depends on the chemistry of the fluid, the conditions under which it is being solidified, and also on the ambient pressure. The process of forming a crystalline structure is often referred to as crystallization.\nSynthetic bismuth crystal\nEnlarge\nSynthetic bismuth crystal\n\nWhile the cooling process usually results in the generation of a crystalline material, under certain conditions, the fluid may be frozen in a noncrystalline state. In most cases, this involves cooling the fluid so rapidly that atoms cannot travel to their lattice sites before they lose mobility. A noncrystalline material, which has no long-range order, is called an amorphous, vitreous, or glassy material. It is also often referred to as an amorphous solid, although there are distinct differences between solids and glasses: most notably, the process of forming a glass does not release the latent heat of fusion. For this reason, many scientists consider glassy materials to be viscous liquids rather than solids, although this is a controversial topic; see the entry on glass for more details.\nInsulin crystals\nEnlarge\nInsulin crystals\n\nCrystalline structures occur in all classes of materials, with all types of chemical bonds. Almost all metal exists in a polycrystalline state; amorphous or single-crystal metals must be produced synthetically, often with great difficulty. Ionically bonded crystals can form upon solidification of salts, either from a molten fluid or when it condenses from a solution. Covalently bonded crystals are also very common, notable examples being diamond, silica, and graphite. Polymer materials generally will form crystalline regions, but the lengths of the molecules usually prevents complete crystallization. Weak Van der Waals forces can also play a role in a crystal structure; for example, this type of bonding loosely holds together the hexagonal-patterned sheets in graphite.\n\nMost crystalline materials have a variety of crystallographic defects. The types and structures of these defects can have a profound effect on the properties of the materials.\nGallium, a metal that easily forms large single crystals\nEnlarge\nGallium, a metal that easily forms large single crystals\nA large artificial monocrystal grown by Saint-Gobain for the megajoule laser of CEA.\nEnlarge\nA large artificial monocrystal grown by Saint-Gobain for the megajoule laser of CEA.\n\nWhile the term "crystal" has a precise meaning within materials science and solid-state physics, colloquially "crystal" refers to solid objects that exhibit well-defined and often pleasing geometric shapes. Various shapes of such crystals are found in nature. The shape of these crystals is dependent on the types of molecular bonds between the atoms to determine the structure, as well as on the conditions under which they formed. Snowflakes, diamonds, and common salt are common examples of crystals.\n\nSome crystalline materials may exhibit special electrical properties such as the ferroelectric effect or the piezoelectric effect.\n\nThe behaviour of light in crystals is described by crystal optics. In periodic dielectric structures a range of unique optical properties can be expected as described in photonic crystals.\n\nCrystallography
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It can be a powder, but that's usually cheap bunk shit thats around $10 a gram. It can look like a salt, most of it technically is(hydrochloride), anywhere from tiny uniform shards that are almost white because theyre so small, to bigger broken up shards that are clear with white in the cracks where they broke it up, to big fist sized shards that are clear. It can also be a dirty green or tan transparent which indicates the anhydrous ammonia wasn't cooked out all the way, or light pink transparent that actually can mean it's pretty good purity but the cook put in a small impurity to turn it that color kinda like a trademark.
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Salt is considered white gold; something valuable and important\nSalt is necessary for survival.\nJesus reminded his deciples that they should be precious to the world, as salt is to life, and not to lose their saltiness as when diluted in water.\n\nLots wife turned to a "pillar of salt": This idiom is used to make a strong statement for the lesson to be learned. A pillar of salt will be remembered better than a pillar of stone. An emphasis is put on the moral of the story by referring to it as salt.\nIn real, she might have gotten burned to charcoal or her salty body fluids may have oozed out of the skin. Since such literal descriptions are usually not used in the Bible, the happening was depicted as a pillar of salt.
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It is because of all the minerals dissolved and very small washed into it, from rivers, that have erode on the land.\n\nIt is a certain mix of minerals that makes it salty, but the dead sea is an example of where mineral are washed in, but dont run out to anywhere is, so it just gets saltier.
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no it isn't. Iodine is the central atom and has 3 bonding pair and 2 nonbonding pair, a total of 5 pairs of electrons.\nthat would make it trigonal bipyramidal, more specifically we call it T shaped.
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Not to be confused by the 8 branched Channukia (that is different). You are asking about the Menorah, which was commanded to be built by God during the wilderness wandering in the Sinai desert. Yes it is mentioned in the Torah because it was one of the major pieces of furniture in the Tabernacle. \n\nThis lampstand was fashioned by taking pure gold and beating it to form almond branches and bowls. Olive oil was poured in these bowls as fuel for the lamp wicks. This was the only source of light in the Holy place. (the light in the holy of holies was provided by the Shekinah of God)\n\nThe center "vine" represents Messiah. Yeshua said, "I am the vine, you are the branches." as well as... "I am the Light of the world." I did a study on the Tabernacle and how each piece of furniture parallels each of the Jewish feasts as well as prophetic events if you are interested.
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By "salt," I'm assuming you are talking about rock salt. It lowers the necessary temperature for which the ice cream will freeze, allowing the ice cream to congeal (come together). This provides the texture that we all have come to know and love. People also use rock salt on snow to melt it. The lowering the freezing point of the water combined with the temperature of the snow remaining the same, causes the snow to melt.
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the scientific name is Hydrated Sodium Aluminum Silicate\n\nthe rarety is that instead of the usual prisms with square pyramidal terminations there are formed small roof-shaped ridges as shown in plate 34, commonly with curved or more strictly broken roof lines and coxcomb-like groups
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Because salt consists of sodium and chloride ions, and as You know, ions have charge, so You know there will be an interaction(attraction) between water molecules and the ions. You might also know that in ice, water molecules are in a definite distance from each other, they are in a crystal structure. Well, because of the interaction, that structure "opens up", and the water molecules get closer to each other, so the structure move from solid to liquid, as the interaction between them becomes weaker.\nI hope i was understandable. \nSalt lowers the boiling point and increases the freezing point of water. You can see it Yourself by putting salt into water, it'll boil sooner than without it.
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Ionic compounds (like NaCl) for lattice structures.  These lattice structures make up the crystaline arrangement of the compound.\n\nThe lattice of NaCl looks like a cube,\nhttp://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~davidz/Chem3AF97/ChB/IonicBond.html\nhttp://departments.kings.edu/chemlab/chemlab_v2/nacl.html
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hectic question, this ain't maths homework is it?\n\nA regular octahedron has 24 rotational (or orientation-preserving) symmetries, and a total of 48 symmetries including transformations that combine a reflection and a rotation. A cube has the same set of symmetries, since it is the dual of an octahedron.\n\nThe group of orientation-preserving symmetries is S4, or the group of permutations of four objects, since there is exactly one such symmetry for each permutation of the four pairs of opposite sides of the octehedron.\n\nloads more info. on the link below.
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Neither. It is a salt, the most famous one.
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The mineral content of the Dead Sea is significantly different from that of ocean water, consisting of approximately 53% magnesium chloride, 37% potassium chloride and 8% sodium chloride (table salt) with the remainder comprised of various trace elements.\n\nThe concentration of SO4 ions is very low, and the bromine ions concentration is the highest of all waters on Earth. Chlorides neutralize most of the calcium ions in the Dead Sea and its surroundings. While in other seas NaCl is 97%, in the Dead Sea the quantity of the NaCl is only 12-18 percent. The water temperature goes from 19 °C in February to 31 °C in August.\n\nThe water of the Dead Sea contains 21 minerals including magnesium, calcium, bromine and potassium. Twelve of these are found in no other sea or ocean, and some are recognized for imparting a relaxed feeling, nourishing the skin, activating the circulatory system and for easing rheumatic discomfort and metabolic disorders. Comparison between the chemical composition of the Dead Sea to other lakes and oceans show that the salt's concentration in the Dead Sea is 31.5% (the salinity fluctuates somewhat). Because of its unusually high concentration of salt, anyone can float in the Dead Sea easily because of natural buoyancy. In this the Dead Sea is similar to the Great Salt Lake in Utah, in the United States.