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How the arrival of iodized salt 100 years ago changed America (wapo.st)

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[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world -5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

All salt is sea salt.

[–] Vector@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

~~Except for all of the salt that isn’t sea salt…~~

Edit: Apparently many millions of years ago, the salt was deposited by the ocean as the continent emerged, so even though this salt is harvested hundreds of kilometers inland, it is technically originally from the ocean.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Murray Darling Basin is part of this natural geographic of the land, where an ancient inland ocean once flourished. Ocean sediments, the weathering of rocks and rainfall over millions of years formed the Murray/Darling Basin’s landscapes and rivers.

Still originally sea salt, just like all the other mined salts.

[–] Vector@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Didn’t realise the ocean ever came up that far - it’s very inland. I stand corrected…The more you know!

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