JanMell and the Australian Salt

Mabuhay Vinyl Corporation's main raw material is salt. Yes, that harmless compound formed from the reaction of a poisonous gas and a violently reactive metal, unless of course you're the flightless half of a manananggal. However, it's not just ordinary salt. It's imported from down under, yep Australia, because Australian salt is 98% pure.

 It's a whole mountain of Australian salt and it's enough to instill to you the fear of osmosis and dehydration.

 I'm supposed to be pointing to an impending avalanche, only this time, when you're buried, you'll get preserved not from the cold, but from all your moisture drying out.

Apparently, I'm safe.

This salt is processed by Mabuhay Vinyl to produce it's two main products-- sodium hydroxide or caustic soda, and hydrochloric acid or muriatic acid, two of the most important industrial chemicals. By industrial, I mean to say something that is used as raw material to produce certain products. In this case, from plastics to the food we eat.

Photos Courtesy of Mary Bernadine Dumaog . Taken during the class Plant Tour. (She's not my official photographer. Ha ha)