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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

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

“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

[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

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

Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man…

— Margaret Visser

Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things…

— Margaret Visser

“MEATS SHOULD BE UNCURED AND UNPROCESSED AND SHOULD NOT CONTAIN SODIUM NITRITE. Sausage, pepperoni, bacon, salami, and other processed meats often contain the color-fixing…

— William Davis

“Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist, arsenic, sublimate, realgar, tartar, orpiment, verdegris.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

— Margaret Visser