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Draft:Waste salt

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Waste salt is any chemical salt which results as an undesired byproduct of an industrial process. It may also refer specifically to common salt as a component of industrial waste or pollution.

Sodium chloride

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Due to the prolific industrial and chemical applications of sodium, chlorine, and their many chemical derivatives, many industrial processes and chemical syntheses yield a NaCl byproduct. Because of the abundance of sodium chloride in nature,

The Dow process for phenol and Olin Raschig process for hydrazine both produce an equivalent of sodium chloride for each equivalent of the primary product. In both cases, the salt byproduct was a major reason for the development and adoption of alternative routes to their primary product (the cumene process and peroxide process respectively).

Other notable waste salts

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The Grignard reaction typically requires work-up by aqueous acid, which results in an aqueous solution of various magnesium salts, typically halides.