LIFE OF TABLE SALT

CONTENTS

Introduction

About Me

Steps to my Creation

Events

Uses

References

This is the story…OF MY LIFE..!!

I…..am Table

Salt…..!!

ABOUT MEHello, everybody..

I am salt and today I will tell you everything about me, from when I am collected to the way I am presented to you, as a purified and mineralized Table Salt, that you all consume..!!

I will further go on to tell you great events that have occurred for me, and my various uses in the society for domestic as well as industrial uses.

STEPS TO MY CREATION

I. Collection – From sea water or Brine Solution.

II. Transportation

III. Purification

IV. Iodisation

V. Packaging and Delivery

COLLECTION• The table salt that you use, is obtained from the sea.

• Near the sea shore , the sea water is collected in shallow pits {commonly called as salt pits}and allowed to evaporate in sunshine.

• In a few days the whole water evaporates and the left out is the impure salt.

TRANSPORTATION• I am so obtained is collected and

transported to big factories ,where it is purified and packed for consumption.

PURIFICATION• The process of crystallisation is used to

obtain me to impure salt.

• The common salt obtained from sea water is impure and contains impurities like wind, sand, mud and many other harmful substances which are dissolved In them.

• It is dissolved in hot water and then filtered.

• On cooling, the hot filtrate crystals of me appear.

IODISATION

• Table Salt is mixed with small amount of various salts of the element Iodine.

• Iodine ingestion prevents Iodine deficiency in the body.

• Iodine deficiency in the body causes Goitre, which is a thyroid gland problem.

A Pile of Iodised Salt

MY USES I the pure iodized table salt am used in many ways ….want to know the ways ?!?

• butter manufacture

• soil stabilization

• tempering of steel

• fertilizers and weed killers

• pine board manufacture

• pottery production

THE ‘DANDI MARCH’

• The Salt March, also mainly known as the Salt Satyagraha, began with the Dandi March on 12 March 1930, and w. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (commonly called Mahatma Gandhi) led the Dandi march from his base, Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad, to the coastal village of Dandi, located at a small town called Navsari, in the state of Gujarat. As he continued on this 24-day, 240-mile (390 km) march to produce salt without paying the tax, growing numbers of Indians joined him along the way. When Gandhi broke the salt laws at 6:30 am on 5 April 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians. The campaign had a significant effect on changing world and British attitude towards Indian independence and caused large numbers of Indians to join the fight for the first time.as an important part of the Indian independence movement.

I AM EVERY WHERE!!!!!

• Made by Rachit – as salt

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