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• Salt cellars
• World's longest salt cave
• Salt Grottos use - part 3rd
• Salt lakes - Baskunchak
• Salt Grottos use - part 2nd
• Salt lakes - Namtso
• Salt Grottos use - part 1st
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Salt cellars

A salt cellar is a small dish for holding salt. The use of salt cellars continued through the 1940s, but has been in decline since and been gradually replaced with salt shakers.

Continue reading 26.09.2007. 10:40

World's longest salt cave

Qeshm Island, Jan 21, IRNA-The world's longest salt cave has been unearthed in Qeshm Geopark by Iranian and Czech experts, said the Saturday issue of the Persian morning daily, Iran.

Continue reading 26.09.2007. 10:36

Salt Grottos use - part 3rd

UNCONVENTIONAL USES
Some unconventional concepts have been proposed for the use of salt grottos. A number of these are noted here.
Storage of food grains in salt grottos, with pneumatic conveyance systems, has been proposed. Storage of liquid natural gas (LNG) in salt caverns is appealing, because volume requirements are reduced by a factor of about 600 from the gas phase.

Continue reading 26.09.2007. 10:30

Salt lakes - Baskunchak

Lake Baskunchak (Russian: Баскунчак) is a salt lake of 115 km² in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, located at 48°10′N, 46°53′E, about 270 km north of the Caspian Sea, and 53 km east of the Volga. Since 1997 the area is strictly protected as nature reserve.

Continue reading 18.09.2007. 13:38

Salt Grottos use - part 2nd

MAIN USES

Salt Grottos basically constitute very large underground openings that provide secure containment for materials that do not dissolve salt. In general, uses of salt grottos can be classified as either storage or disposal operations. Storage of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, and associated products, was successful early on, and remains the main use of salt grottos today. Disposal of wastes and “by-product” constitutes the next most important use of salt caverns. Some examples of these two main types of operations follow.

Continue reading 18.09.2007. 13:35