The ten different Iranian natural table salts, used in this study. The brief name related to each salt is used in further sections. The quality grades were determined by the visual inspections by the producers.

The ten different Iranian natural table salts, used in this study. The brief name related to each salt is used in further sections. The quality grades were determined by the visual inspections by the producers.

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Broadband acoustic resonance dissolution spectroscopy (BARDS) has been recently introduced as a low-cost method for the analysis of powdered materials. In this study, ten Iranian natural table salts, each separated into five particle size fractions, were analyzed with BARDS. The compositions and crystalline structure of samples were investigated wi...

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... from ten different types of rock (seven) and sea (three) salts were collected from Iranian salt producers. The ten salt types, shown in Fig. 1, originated from Iranian salt mines and lakes. Due to the hygroscopic nature of the unrefined salts, all samples were oven-dried at 103˚C103˚103˚C before the analysis. Salts were ground using a commercial coffee grinder (Tristar KM-2270 Tristar, Smartwares Group, Tilburg, the Netherlands). For the BARDS measurements, the ground salts ...