Body Quote by Mark Kurlansky

“Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or…

— Mark Kurlansky

Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products,…

— Michael Moss

“When sodium, an unstable metal that can suddenly burst into flame, reacts with a deadly poisonous gas known as chlorine, it becomes the staple…

— Mark Kurlansky

[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with…

— Carl Sagan

“even a scientist can’t help thinking of the Periodic Table as a zoo of one-of-a-kind animals conceived by Dr. Seuss. How else could we…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than…

— Mark Kurlansky

Life itself seems like a lie from time to time, you don't need salt to be added into the injury.

— Anonymous

Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts…

— Joel Fuhrman

Where would we be without salt?

— James Beard

The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I…

— David Sedaris

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of…

— Sarah Waters