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saltstone

noun

  1. Salt that has accumulated and hardened into a rocklike consistency.

    countable, uncountable

    The amount of saltstone to be produced at Savannah River is very large, about 3 million tons over 28 years; […]

Where it comes from

From Middle English saltstone, salteston, salt stan, from Old English sealtstān (“rock salt, niter”), from Proto-West Germanic *saltastain, equivalent to salt + stone.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry saltstone (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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