A 'canister' of salt may be any size. I have seen 8, 12 and 16 ounce canisters.
One pound of salt is equal to 42.6 teaspoons. This is equal to 14.2 tablespoons or 0.888 cups. Sodium chloride is another name for table salt.
That is about 0.92 of a cup.
That is approximately 66 tablespoons.
1/2 ounce of salt
Depends what the "dry " is. A half ounce of salt has less volume than half ounce of dried parsley.
If you mean ordinary table salt. One salt crystal weighs about 0.0000585 grams (or 0.0585mg) grams. There are 453.59237 grams in a pound. If you divide the first number into the second number, you get 7,753,716 crystals per pound, or approximately 8 million ordinary salt crystals per pound.)The answer will be different for other salts like kosher salt, rock salt, and sea salt.
1 cup = 16 tablespoons
That is approximately 15.937 tablespoons.
That is approximately 9.982 tablespoons.
That is approximately 1.02 tablespoons.
There are 2 cups in a pound of salt
That is 1 tbsp.