• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    I have to admit that I absolutely love how licking sodium or chloride individually is very bad for you, but when you put them together, you can lick, eat, and even swim in it all day with minimal ill health effects.

    Science. 💙

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      Sodium reacts violently in water
      Chlorine was used in mustard gas
      Sodium chloride : I make the soup too salty (yuckyCat.jpg)

    • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works
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      swim in it all day

      If you submerged your body in table salt in a swimming pool for an entire day, would you come out dehydrated and start to turn cured like beef jerky?

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        If it’s anything like pool salt, probably not. I have a neighbor who uses pool salt, and I feel like I come out less shriveled (in my fingers of course 😏) than if it were chlorine water.

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          You are taking about water with salt. The question about submerging in a pool full of just salt.