salt

     

Salt is a ietary mineral essential for animal life, composed primarily of sodium chloride. Salt flavor is one of the basic tastes, and salt is the most popular food seasoning. Salt is also a key preservative.

Trivia about salt

  • Phoenix lies on a river named for this substance found in the name of another state capital
  • It's the more common name for sodium chloride
  • The word salad comes from Latin for this, because most Romans dressed their salads with little else
  • When Lake Bonneville evaporated thousands of years ago, it left tons of this on the flats
  • "Salary" comes from the Latin for "of" this seasoning
  • Sandy "Pepa" Denton's rap partner Cheryl Jones is nicknamed this
  • Scientists once tried to estimate the Earth's age by measuring the level of this substance in the ocean
  • To quickly chill a bottle, add the rock type of this to ice & water, lowering the freezing point
  • Iodized_____lick
  • The word "malossol" on a caviar label means the roe is preserved with a minimum of this seasoning
  • To control high blood pressure, you should exercise, eat right & reduce this seasoning in your diet
  • Utah lake seasoning(4)
  • To combat hypothyroidism, iodine was first added in the 1920s to this common seasoning
  • Quarried from the desert, it's been used as currency by Ethiopians, presumably not in shakers
  • Top quality caviar contains less than 5% of this additive
  • As the sea turtle's kidneys can't handle all of this it absorbs from its environment, a gland has evolved to excrete it
  • Benvenuto Cellini's most famous surviving work is a gold cellar for this seasoning
  • At a dinner party, this seasoning may be served in its own little "cellar", with an eensy-weensy spoon
  • By definition, a "baldie" is a pretzel without this
  • If you deserve your salary, you're "worth your" this, which is what "salarium" refers to in Latin
  • 3 basic types of this ingredient are table, Kosher & sea
  • Use the kosher type of this, not iodized, to rim glasses
  • Fodor's suggests carrying this common seasoning if you think you'll encounter leeches
  • Common kitchen substance known chemically as sodium chloride
  • Produced when seawater evaporates, halite is a rock composed of this substance
  • Lettuce tell you the term "salad" comes from the French salade, meaning with this seasoning
  • Asparagus plants can tolerate this table condiment better than most, so it's sometimes used in beds for weed control
  • The label on our leftover caviar says "malossol", which means it was prepared with just a little of this seasoning
  • Got plenty of sugar & this other essential seasoning to make country-cured ham
  • To remove an excess of this from soup add slices of raw potato to absorb it
  • The word salami comes from the Latin word for this compound that's also known as sodium chloride
  • This title spy's first name was Edwin when Tom Cruise had the role originally; a casting change made it Evelyn
  • Brine is defined as water containing this in concentrated form
  • Lettuce tell you the term salad comes from the French "salade" meaning with this seasoning
  • Add a half pound of the "sea" type of this to your bath water & you may feel like you're swimming in Utah
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from beside a mummy from Cairo, Egypt.) To remove all the moisture from a body, natron, a variety of this, was applied both inside & outside the corpse
  • Fran's Chocolates of Seattle makes delectable caramels topped with the gray sea type of this
  • If you put too much of this into a dish, drop in a peeled potato to absorb it
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a sumo training stable in Tokyo, Japan.) Sumo wrestlers scatter this compound to purify the ring prior to each match
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out a chemical equation on a chalkboard.) Science:A neutralization reaction which forms water & this compound
  • It's the common "table" substance whose formula is NaCl
  • You can use a piece of string to pick up an ice cube if you first sprinkle the ice with this stuff, sodium chloride
  • Burn a piece of sodium in a flask filled with chlorine gas & the resulting white powder is this
  • Lewis & Clark spent 7 weeks in Seaside, Oregon boiling sea water to get enough of this to preserve their return food
  • Bittern, a source of bromides & iodides, is the solution left after this has been crystallized from seawater
  • A halophyte is a plant that can tolerate a large amount of this substance in the soil
  • Bittern, a solution rich in bromines, is what's left after this is crystallized from seawater
  • A worthy, honest person is called this "of the earth"
  • This 4-letter neutral compound is produced by the reaction of an acid & a base
  • We're told that the Mongols sowed the lands they conquered with this, to make them unfertile
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Besh-ba-gowah Pueblo in Phoenix, AZ.) The people who built these structures in Arizona are known to us as Salado, the Spanish word for this nearby river
  • The Afar cut blocks of this from the Danakil Desert & used it as a currency
  • Humans can drink sea water once it has been desalinated, meaning this has been removed

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  • RT @ScreamoTAI: 「軍需産業を不買しよう!」 ↓ 「お前があげた企業抜きだと生活出来ないんだが~?そもそもインターネットが軍需由来だし」 ↓ 「アニメアイコンブロックした」 という、美しい様式美になってた
  • まだ二週間前だぞwwwwwwww
  • RT @niwakaha: 坂本龍一の「俺は原発が大嫌いだから、放射線治療も拒否する」という行為がどんだけバカバカしいことかといえば、「私は地球温暖化に反対します! だから全ての炭酸飲料を飲まない!」みたいな宣言を考えたらわかるよね。 つまりここにあるのは論理ではなく、ただの狂…