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Himalayan salt contains some minerals that are toxic in large quantities, including lead and plutonium, but which are safe in trace amounts. In addition to sodium and chloride the following elements are found in Himalayan Salts:

actinium, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, astatine, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorine, francium, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, gold, hafnium, holmium, hydrogen, indium, iodine, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, Mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, osmium, oxygen, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, plutonium, polonium, potassium, praseodymium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, uranium, vanadium, wolfram, yttrium, ytterbium, zinc and zirconium.

And these are almost all the elements in Periodic Table.

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Method used /Specs:

1. Vogel's Text Book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis 6th Ed (2003)

2. Colorimetric Determination of Elements by G.R. Charlet (1964)

RESULTS

The provided sample of Rock Salt was analyzed as follows:

Chloride Contents as NaCI (%) 98.80

Magnesium as Mg2+ (mg/Kg) 450

Sulphate as SO 4/2- (small 4 is low down and 2 is up above) 6000

Iron as Fe2+ " 1.9

Copper as Cu2+ " < 0.5

Chromium as Cr3+ " <0.05

Hydrogen Carbonate as HCO 3/1+ " 300

Carbonate as CO 3/2- " <100

Bromide as Br1- " 25

Potassium as K1+ " 3200

Manganese as Mn2+ " 0.15

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