Adding impurities to a pure salt or applying a method of preparation which not lead to a pure salt.
Salt (sodium chloride) is a natural product; the impure salt is extracted from mines or sea waters.
Pure
Road salt is impure salt directly extracted from mines.
The refining of the impure salt involve filtration of the water solution and the purification by repeated processes of crystallization/recrystallization.
Water from sea water is evaporated to obtain impure salt; after crystallization/recrystallization repeated processes pure table salt is obtained.
Generally rock salt is more impure than table salt.
Rock salt (impure salt) is frequently colored.
Rock salt is impure sodium chloride.
You think probable to a very impure rock salt.
- The water is released by evaporation and an impure NaCl is obtained. - The impure NaCl is dissolved. - The solution is filtered. - The solution is refined by repeated processes of crystallization and recrystallization.
Salt and water can be separated by heating the salt solution. The solution is heated till the water turns into steam. When entire water steams out, the white particles left behind is known as salt. This is the first step in obtaining salt from sea water. There water is collected in large areas and the water is allowed to evaporate. After the water evaporates the salt left behind is impure. So further processes are done on that impure salt to make it pure.
Grey salt is impure marine salt; the chemical formula is NaCl (sodium chloride).