Why is the road salt for road use stored in buildings that look like a big nipple?
1.Is it because of spacing and storage? (Although, I don’t know why a tit would be better for storage than say a regular square.)
2.Or the way the air circulates and the need to keep the salt from warming and clumping together?
Salt, like sand naturally forms a conical pile when you try to collect it in a heap. If you try to fight this tendancy and collect it into a cubical shape you have to reinforce the walls of your container in order to handle the outward pressure of the salt. Building reinforced walls is MUCH more expensive than simply allowing the salt to have its way and building a cheap conical building around it.
Such a simple answer, yet I can’t help wishing it was more, well, salacious. Not that my mind’s in the salt cellar, you understand, but neither am I a Shaker.
how long have you been waiting to say that, aseymayo?
you guys kill me.
Damn… this thread really was not about what I thought it was about… and me with a bottle of tequila all ready… sigh!
I always called them “salt domes.” Whenever I pass one on the highway, I comment that there could be oil under there…nobody gets it.