Timeline for Why wouldn't the South make salt from seawater during the American Civil War?
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| Aug 23, 2017 at 12:22 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | Might be worth noting, en passant, that the over-aggressive mining of salt domes in Florida is the cause of their many sink-holes. | |
| Jun 4, 2015 at 14:36 | history | edited | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2015 at 9:29 | history | edited | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2015 at 9:23 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | I'm modifying that part a bit to make it less absolute. I think the "saltern" link I added there might clear up a few of the questions in the comments. | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 23:28 | comment | added | jamesqf | @user54609: Perhaps because the amount of salt in seawater (about 4%) is much less than in a concentrated solution (35%), so you'd have to boil off a lot more water. | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 23:21 | comment | added | ithisa | Why can't you cook seawater to recover the salt then? Why do you need to use the sun? | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 22:05 | vote | accept | Mike | ||
| Jun 3, 2015 at 21:21 | comment | added | Relaxed | @BanksySan Actually the most efficient early modern salt mining techniques require large quantities of water and wood so a climate quite different from that best suited to sea salt extraction. It works by flooding an underground mine, then cooking the brine to recover the salt. | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 19:08 | comment | added | jamesqf | @BanksySan: Production of salt from sea water requires sunny weather. Presumably the salt from Wales was mined. I know there have been salt mines just across the border in Cheshire for centuries. | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 19:06 | comment | added | SJuan76 | @BanksySan salt production from sea water requires a sunny climate. But salt is also found in deposits, and mined. Obviously, underground mining has little correlation with the climate. bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29879012 | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 17:04 | comment | added | BanksySan | If the extraction of salt required reliable sunny whether, why was it imported from Wales? Wales is a country associated with lush green fields, due to the amount of cloud and rainfall there. | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 12:21 | history | edited | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2015 at 12:01 | history | edited | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2015 at 11:51 | history | answered | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |