Word: kryolith
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...reason for "Salt's" prosperity is that around 1860 when it was struggling to keep alive, Danish geologists learned of a white stone in Greenland which the Eskimos called "ice-that-will-not-melt." The Danes called it Kryolith, and five years later they gave "Salt" exclusive U. S. rights to their product...