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Morton Salt is a United States company specializing in the production of salt for food, water conditioning, industrial, agricultural, and road/highway use. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 639 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2178 × 2043 pixel, file size: 255 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) Salt covering the floor of Bad Water in Death Valley, CA, the lowest point in the US. A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral...
The company began in Chicago, Illinois in 1848 as a small sales agency. In 1910, the business, which had by this time become both a manufacturer and a merchant of salt, was incorporated as the Morton Salt Company. Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government...
Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ...
Year 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
At present the business, still based in Chicago, is North America's leading producer and marketer of salt. Its main facility, the second-largest solar saline operation in North America, is in Matthew Town, Inagua, The Bahamas. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
Inagua is the southernmost district of the Bahamas comprising the islands of Great Inagua and Little Inagua. ...
In 1999 Morton Salt was acquired by the Philadelphia-based Rohm and Haas Company, Inc. and operates as a division of that company today. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Rohm and Haas is a special materials manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Morton Salt's distinctive hand-drawn logo features the "Morton Salt Girl," a young girl between the ages of seven and nine standing in the rain with an opened umbrella, and scattering salt behind her from a cylindrical container of table salt. The company's logo, developed in 1914, and its motto, "When it rains, it pours" (developed in 1911), were developed to illustrate the point that Morton Salt was free flowing, even in rainy weather. Originally, the company had added magnesium carbonate as an absorbing agent to ensure that its table salt was free flowing; calcium silicate is now used instead for the same purpose. This articles section called Other facts does not cite its references or sources. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Magnesium carbonate, MgCO3, is a white solid that occurs in nature as a mineral. ...
Calcium silicate, otherwise known as slag, has a low bulk density and high physical water absorption. ...
Morton's sister company in Canada is Windsor Salt, and both companies are owned by Rohm and Haas. Rohm and Haas is a special materials manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
External links
- Morton Salt official site
- Gallery of Morton Salt advertisements
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