Halite

Halite is a mineral that is known to everyone as "salt." Its chemical name is sodium chloride, and a rock composed primarily of halite is known as "rock salt."

Characteristics
Halite has two colors, fresh and obsolete. It's clear color is fresh colors such as blue and pink while its obsolete color is gray. It has a white and glassy luster. Halite has a perfect hemisphere and the fractions are uneven. Halite has a hardness of 2.5 and a specific gravity of 2.1. Tenacity halite be brittle while the form of isometric crystal system. This is included in the class halide.

How Halite Forms
Halite is primarily a sedimentary rock that usually forms in climates where ocean water evaporates. However, many lakes such as the Great Salt Lake of North America and the Dead Sea between Jordan and Israel are also locations where halite is forming. Over [geologic] time, several salt deposits have been formed when seawater evaporation occurred in isolated basins. Some of these deposits are thousands of feet thick. When they are buried deeply, they can erupt to form salt domes.

Uses of Halite
Halite has many uses. Most of the salt produced is crushed Halite that is used in the winter on roads to control the accumulation of snow and ice. Significant amounts of salt are also used by the chemical industry. Salt is an essential nutrient for humans and most animals, and it is also a favorite seasoning for many types of food. Halite is a mineral that everyone knows.

Halite in Other Industries
Halite is used in the healing industry by those who practice meditation and by those who believe that minerals have their own healing or "soulful" properties. In this industry, Halite is considered to be a mineral that cleanses and energizes the chakras. It is believed that specific colors of Halite produces different results.

For example, Blue Halite is said to be connected to the "third eye" and crown chakras. It is said that Blue Halite removes any energy blockages and cleanses the body, opening the mind and body to higher plains of thought and being. Pink Halite is said to be connected to the heart and the solar plexus. It is believed that Pink Halite cleanses the chakras connected to these areas of the body and opens up a person's heart to allow them to have a loving awareness of oneself and those around them. Pink Halite is also said to help people to release emotional issues and attachments that are no longer helping them or serving a purpose, thus allowing them to become emotionally "confident".