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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 02:53 PM
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What is salt? NaCl.
Chlorine,a poisonous gas and sodium,a flammable metal, combine to form salt.


Chloride and sodium ions, the two major components of salt, are necessary for the survival of all known living creatures. Salt is involved in regulating the water content (fluid balance) of the body. Overconsumption of salt increases the risk of health problems, including high blood pressure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 02:55 PM
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1. You know...
There are some people in GD who probably don't know this...:rofl:
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:40 PM
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2. Learning chemistry had to have been one of the smartest things I ever did
I can't imagine going through life without understanding the basics of chemistry, including organic.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 06:15 PM
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3. Right. So why is 'sea salt' better than 'other' salt.
It's all just SALT, right?
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 09:11 PM
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4. Sea salt has more flavor. It's saltier.
:rofl:
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 11:12 PM
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5. It's not just salt
Mined salt is pure sodium chloride.

Sea salt is seawater they've allowed to evaporate; there are lots more minerals in it than just sodium chloride. Those minerals are good for you.
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 11:15 PM
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6. C'mon. Minerals = Chemicals.
Chemicals = BAD

More chemicals, more bad.

Sea salt: SUPERBAD.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 11:41 PM
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7. Not all chemicals are bad
After all, where would we be without toluene diisocyanate or diethylene glycol monomethyl ether? (And no I didn't google any of those.)

I wouldn't recommend eating any of those, but our modern society would come to a screeching halt without chemicals.

I'm not a huge fan of phosgene, but without phosgene there is no polyurethane so you do what you gotta.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 11:51 PM
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8. some of them are pretty good actually!
Tetrahydrocannabinol is popular in some circles.

(ok, that's about it for my chemistry jokes, unless I can work something with unless I can work some Avogadro's guacamole in somehow)
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 12:15 AM
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10. Speaking of THC...
Go to erowid.org and check out the glass molecules they sell. They call them incentives for donating, but I say they're just selling them. Anyway, they hired a glassblower to make them really pretty glass sculptures of some of our favorite psychoactive molecules.



This is dimethyltryptamine...it's one of the nicer ones. This one costs $125. They've got a THC molecule but it's $700.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 12:04 AM
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9. Zinc oxide and you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAJ4XVmI4dc
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 07:31 AM
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11. Dude everything's a chemical! Water is a chemical!
I constantly laugh at the idiots here that seem to think chemical is a bad word. Ummm no! Did you not take basic chemistry? Oxygen? Carbon?Nitrogen? All chemicals that we need for life. L
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 08:46 AM
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12. Umm...no kidding...
You've seen the MSDS for water, right?

http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/W0600.htm

If it's got an MSDS it must be a chemical. But yeah, everything's a chemical including water, air, dirt...
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 08:52 AM
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13. lol @ 'air' & 'dirt'
Where is 'air' on the periodic table then? How about dirt?

Just busting your balls, Mr. No-I-Didn't-Google-That.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 10:11 PM
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17. You know where it is...
It's in the same place as methyl isocyanate, ascorbic acid, and (everyone's favorite) MDMA: not on the periodic table at all because they're mixtures.

You'll love this: over on WikiAnswers someone asked why scientists haven't created a periodic table of the compounds. I cannot even imagine the size of such a thing.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 03:06 AM
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20. methyl isocyanate, ascorbic acid, and MDMA are all compounds, not mixtures.
Christ.
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brendan120678 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 08:58 AM
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14. Hmmm...
I would debate some of the information in that MSDS...


Potential Health Effects
----------------------------------

Water is non-hazardous.

Inhalation:
Not applicable. (Really? It isn't hazardous to inhale water?)
Ingestion:
Not applicable.
Skin Contact:
Not applicable.
Eye Contact:
Not applicable.
Chronic Exposure:
Not applicable. (What about prune-skin? Or shrinkage? Both can result from chronic overexposure to water!)
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
Not applicable.
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BethCA66 Donating Member (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 10:16 PM
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18. Aspiration of water = bad; Ingest too much water = bad.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions, uh edema = bad.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 10:20 PM
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19. You have to know how to read an MSDS...
Inhalation refers to inhaling vapors, not the liquid itself. If you inhale liquid you're gonna drown; everyone knows that so they don't list it as a hazard--it's too obvious. But you inhale water vapor all day long (that's what humidity is--airborne water vapor) and aren't injured by it. Notice they also don't list "burns from water that's too hot" as a hazard of skin contact, because they figure everyone who reads an MSDS knows hot things cause injury. I guess they don't consider prune skin to be enough of a hazard to worry about.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 06:10 AM
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22. good explanation
Plus the purpose of an MSDS is generally to advise on the handling/storage of chemicals in a lab/manufacturing setting. Not too much danger of drowning in those conditions generally!:)
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 11:35 AM
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16. I think that MSDS is wrong about inhalation of water
it can hurt you to try to inhale it!!1!ONE



I was kind of bored at a bar one night and decided to tell people I couldn't drink because I was allergic to alcohol, then basically described my symptoms as "well, a little won't hurt me much, but if I have too much I get dizzy and lose motor control, and sometimes even can get violently ill!" It amazed me how many people just responded with "oh, that sucks!" without getting it.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 03:18 AM
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21. The dihydrogen monoxide industry must be stopped from polluting!
:crazy:
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 09:00 AM
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15. Either Dow Chemical or DuPont USED to hve...
.
...a MAJOR PR campaign based on the slogan of, "Without chemicals, life itself is impossible."
.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 06:13 AM
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23. That's absolutely true though.
I have no issue with that. Unlike many I don't believe that everything those companies do are inherently evil. But that's cause I'm a Pharma shill..:eyes:
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