A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs.
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n halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats
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A saline compound of hydrosulphurous acid and a base.
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Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.
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Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.