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glauber salts

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Anonymous

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How many remember glauber salts :???: ...As a kid I remember folks talking about glauber salts- but haven't heard the stuff mentioned in years...Yesterday while cleaning out an old basement stairway we came across a sack of glauber salts...In a Sears & Roebuck sack...My 85 year old uncle figures its been there 60-70 years.....

He can't remember what Grandpa use it for-- but thinks he mixed it in with the sheep dip as the sulfuric acid rid them of ticks....Anybody know what else they used it for?....
 

Big Muddy rancher

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from goog;e

Natural sources
Two thirds of the world's production of the decahydrate (Glauber's salt) is from the natural mineral form mirabilite, for example as found in lake beds in southern Saskatchewan. In 1990, Mexico and Spain were the world's main producers of natural sodium sulfate (each around 500,000 tonnes), with Russia, USA and Canada around 350,000 tonnes each.[12] Estimatedly, natural resources amount to over 1 billion tonnes.[11][12]

Major producers of 200–1500 Mt/a in 2006 include Searles Valley Minerals (California, USA), Airborne Industrial Minerals (Saskatchewan, Canada), Química del Rey (Coahuila, Mexico), Criaderos Minerales Y Derivados and Minera de Santa Marta, also known as Grupo Crimidesa (Burgos, Spain), FMC Foret (Toledo, Spain), Sulquisa (Madrid, Spain), and in China Chengdu Sanlian Tianquan Chemical (Sichuan), Hongze Yinzhu Chemical Group (Jiangsu), Nafine Chemical Industry Group (Shanxi), and Sichuan Province Chuanmei Mirabilite (Sichuan), and Kuchuksulphat JSC (Altai Krai, Siberia, Russia).[11][13]

Anhydrous sodium sulfate occurs in arid environments as the mineral thenardite. It slowly turns to mirabilite in damp air. Sodium sulfate is also found as glauberite, a calcium sodium sulfate mineral. Both minerals are less common than mirabilite.


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It said they were used as a laxative. Maybe you could try them and tell us how they worked :wink:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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The Salt lake Sybouts is about 20 miles east of us. They used to "mine" the salt off in the winter. My first truck driving experience came hauling salt scraped off the lake into a pile for processing the rest of the year. If I remember the processed "Salt" was used in the paper making process.
 
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