2. Table salt. This is the most common kind of salt, and the one most used in the our kitchen. Sourced from salt mines, it is then refined and most minerals removed. Anti-caking agents are added to prevent clumping, as is iodine, a nutrient not always naturally present in salt.
Opaque is from a Latin word meaning dark, and that was its original sense in English, but it now means literally not transparent or metaphorically hard to understand; unclear: Some of his sentences are really opaque..
Definition of slate for English Language Learners. : a type of hard rock that splits easily into thin layers. : a small sheet of slate in a wooden frame that was used in schools in the past for writing on with chalk.