• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 hours ago

    Depends on the salt used.

    If you check here on table 5 you’ll see that common table salt (NaCl) melts at 801º C.

    As for what’s used, in Chapter 2 of that paper they say “Molten salts consist of alkali metal or alkali metal halides and oxygen-containing salts”, so it’s not actually table salt that’s used in Generation 2 of those kind of power generators.

    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Thanks!

      Do you know of the melting temperatures of any other substance you think I may be interested in?