There was a time when it was thought that human food need consist of no more than proteins, fats, carbohydrates, a little water and a pinch of common salt.
The damage was caused by common salt aggravated by the drought.
Even if you take common salt, for example, it is perfectly possible to poison someone with this by giving him too much.
Even water can be poisonous, if you take enough of it; and certainly common salt can quite easily be so.
The residues after incineration are carbon dioxide and a solution of common salt and sodium carbonate in water.
I understand the dog stood for some time in water, to which sodium chloride had been added, or, in other words, a little common salt.
Common salt is no good—it is the worst possible thing to put on roads on which highly mechanised transport travels.
Initially, the tank was half filled with a homogeneous, air-free solution of common salt in water.
