The History of Sodium Chloride: NaCl
	Salt dates back to the ancient greeks, romans, and egyptians.  They used this product most commonly in preserving food for long periods of time and trading.  By the middle ages, as many as 40,000 camels at a time were traveling across the sahara desert to bring sodium chlroide for trade (sometimes for slaves.)
						Where would we be today without our most common spice, salt and pepper?  In every household you will find a salt shaker.This is one of the most useful spices known.  Not only is it used to enhance the taste of our food, but also to preserve fish, meats, and other foods. Personally, I find it most useful to get rid of pesky slugs on the sidewalk.
		Salt is most commonly found in huge geological deposits of salt minerals that have been left over from the evaporation of saltwater from the sea. This is why when your at the beach, you taste salt when you accidently gulp seawater.
							This picture is of a salt mine over 1,000 ft. below Detroit, Michigan.