Salt of the Asteroid

[ImpalerWrG]

The mineral currently known as Bleach stone should in fact just be called Rock salt.  Salt is a ubiquitous element with a great many uses and possible transformations available to it and it should exist everywhere in the universe being composed of some of the most common elements, one of which is already in the game.

Now obviously can not disinfect with salt, but bleach (Sodium Hypoclorite NaOCl) is actually made from salt.  First off any water found inside the caustic biome, or which stays in contact with a piece of rock salt become brine, a new form of water with a sea-green color, it will of course sink in any other water (note their should be a plant that requires Brine to grow).  Brine can be used at a new station called the 'Bleacher Bench' which has an oxygen and electric input.  Bottles of Bleach are created their by Tidying job eligible Dubs.  These can then be used in the sanitizer as now or used for water purification.  When Bleach and polluted water mix brine is recreated allowing an alternative water cleaning loop, and most importantly one which can kill germs.  The Brine obviously needs a desalination process to create fresh water and solid salt again so this is a considerably more energy intensive process vs the standard sand filter.

Other uses for salt are of course the generation of Clorine gas with Sodium as a byproduct, Sodium's uses included high powered lights, nuclear reactor coolant, as an ingredient of glass and the smelting of titanium.  And lastly you have the culinary uses of salt, like pickling of foods, not to mention seasoning foods after they are cooked.  Lastly salt can serve as a major input to domestic animals in the form of salt-licks.  The possibilities are nearly endless.

[Oozinator]

Just now, ImpalerWrG said:

..and it should exist everywhere in the universe .

In which universe?

[vovik]

So we will also need chlorine -> salt transformer (since bleach is limited).

[ImpalerWrG]

I think Sodium when exposed to Chlorine gas would just burn and produce salt.  If the map would have any native sources of Sodium other then salt is a question though.  Note that the use of Bleach I'm looking at here is fully recyclable when used in water treatment, the hand Sanitizer would just need to produce Brine when used for a fully closed salt cycle.