Is there a difference between table salt and sea salt?

Answer 1

Table salt is normally refined salt from a mine or from the ocean, with most naturally occurring salts and minerals removed, other than sodium chloride. Some additives are returned to table salt to make it "dry" and in an easy use form (small crystals). Sea salt is natural salt from the sea, which has a number of naturally occurring salts and a wide range of minerals, depending on where the salt is harvested through evaporation processes.

Answer 2

Sea salt is made by drying out sea water while rock salt is mined form the ground. However the rock salt in the ground is formed when whole seas dry out to leave behind their salt. Thus, yes there is a difference, but they both come from seawater.

Answer 3

Sea salt has a higher ratio of cations other than sodium to sodium cations than do most supplies of salt for domestic use.

Answer 4

Table salt is almost all sodium chloride, while seas salt, which is still mostly sodium chloride, also contains a variety of other minerals.

Answer 5

sea salt is from the sea.

Chemically any difference - sodium chloride, NaCl.

Answer 6

Table Salt is Finer or smaller than Sea salt

Answer 7

Sea salt is produced by evaporating sea-water, the other might or might not.

Answer 8

Yes. Normal table salt is simple sodium chloride with traces of iodine. Sea salt, although it is mostly sodium chloride, contains a wide variety of minerals.

Answer 9

The difference between sea salt and rock salt is only where they are found. Chemically, sodium chloride is sodium chloride, no matter where it comes from.