Why was letting seawater evaporate in the sun not an sufficient, or good, method for obtaining salt?

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Why was letting seawater evaporate in the sun not an sufficient, or good, method for obtaining salt?

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Pollution/unwanted germs would be absorbed into the salt and cause it to be unpurified salt and it wouldn’t taste as good.

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