Ungrounded, Unground, Ungrind?

Bartholomew · May 19, 2008

I need to express that salt has not been ground up, and I'd like to use it as an adjective.

If I say the salt is ungrounded, would it be saying that it was still in crystal form---or that it was safe to touch, because the electricity had been diverted?

Grump.

ETA

Answered my own question. Unground is what I need. Thankies.

TheIT · May 19, 2008

Do you mean "rock salt"?

In any case, "unground". Consider "ground pepper", therefore the opposite would be "unground". Also, I don't think "ungrinded" is a word. "Grounded/ungrounded" definitely refers to electricity or confidence.

Bartholomew · May 19, 2008

TheIT said:
Do you mean "rock salt"?

In any case, "unground". Consider "ground pepper", therefore the opposite would be "unground". Also, I don't think "ungrinded" is a word. "Grounded/ungrounded" definitely refers to electricity or confidence.

Rock salt would probably work better. I didn't know there was a term for it. Thanks!

Ungrinded isn't a word because the past tense of Grind is Ground.

Kalyke · May 19, 2008

Yes, ungrounded would be like a spiritualist or new age person who got zapped by unknown entities. Or it could pertain to electricity, come to think of it, an ungrounded wire.

Flay · May 20, 2008

Bartholomew said:
Rock salt would probably work better./quote]
In this country, at least, "rock salt" is set out in blocks for livestock, or scattered on the ground to melt ice. "Coarse salt" is what's used in salt grinders.

Bartholomew · May 21, 2008

Flay said:
Bartholomew said:

Rock salt would probably work better./quote]
In this country, at least, "rock salt" is set out in blocks for livestock, or scattered on the ground to melt ice. "Coarse salt" is what's used in salt grinders.

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Much obliged!

Shweta · May 21, 2008

Seems like "coarse salt" would be coarsely (sp?) ground, and rock salt would be unground?

HeronW · May 21, 2008

Salt blocks are set out for livestock, peppercorns are whole before your peppergrinder chews them up, unrefined or coarse sea salt is extracted from the sea and not ground, table salt is ground usually from salt mines or salt flats, rock salt for icy driveways is not at all the same as the table salt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt

Shweta · May 21, 2008

Then what does one call chunks of sea salt or mined, edible salt that are big enough to pick up? Because I thought they were rock salt too.

dobiwon · May 21, 2008

It think rock salt could either be natural chunks of unrefined mined salt, or salt purposely formed into large chunks. Salt from the sea is normally obtained as coarse crystals, but probably not large enough to be called chunks.

IceCreamEmpress · May 21, 2008

Shweta said:
Then what does one call chunks of sea salt or mined, edible salt that are big enough to pick up? Because I thought they were rock salt too.

"Coarse salt" or "Extra-coarse salt" are the general terms used in the US for the salt sold to be used in salt grinders. See here, for instance.

Ungrounded, Unground, Ungrind?

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